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Re: the world best media player for free -- USER OPINION
de HVS 06/28/2006 05:31
On 28 Jun 2006, Terry wrote
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:44:31 GMT, HVS
> <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Jun 2006, John Jay Smith wrote
>>
>>> HVS, Hi,
>>>
>>> if you dont use an equalizer or DSP there should not be much
>>> difference in what program you do use to play an audio
>>> file...
>>>
>>> I would be suprised if someone could hear the difference
>>> between decoders used...
>>> (if you are comparing the same file of course)
>>
>> I'm poor at understanding the technology on this, but I've
>> made a test file which has two playings of a 10-sec .wav
>> clip; it's thus a 20-second .wav file -- big -- but if
>> you're interested I've stuck it at
>> http://www.whhvs.webhop.net/temp/gom-1by1.wav.
>>
>> The first half was played through GOM, the second through
>> 1by1; each was captured/re-recorded through Total Recorder.
>>
>> I know I adjusted the equaliser on 1by1, but I also tried
>> adjusting the equaliser on GOM, and it frankly made
>> diddly-squat difference that I could hear.
>>
>> Whatever; all I know is that there's no comparison between
>> the quality of the two playbacks.
>
> It seems to me that the biggest difference between the two
> samples is that the 1by1 sample is at much louder volume. You
> can't compare samples at different volumes, the louder one
> will always sound "better" (until you get to *really* loud
> volumes. :)
> I'm no audiophile, but when I attempt to adjust the volume to
> be the same in the two clips, they don't sound that different
> to me...
But that was part of the problem. I didn't change the settings
between the two recordings -- both players had their volume
controls set to about 50%, and my PC system sound was unchanged.
The only way I found I could get that sort of volume out of GOM
was to turn PC's volume so high that system-event sounds made me
jump out of my skin. (And when I did, it didn't sound as rich to
my ear.)
I might try fiddling a bit more with the settings, but as the
low-volume problem hasn't happened with other audio players, it
looks like something about the GOM player doesn't like my audio
support.
--
Cheers,
Harvey