Re: Sound Quality Problem

Guo Lin wrote:
Thank you for replying.

I play the same mp3 on my FC6 and WinXP on the same PC using the same
speakers. But they sounds really different. I find the music turns
crappy in FC6. I use default settings for the equalizers/mixers etc. For
acapella music, it does not sound too differently between that in FC6
and WinXP. The 'crappiness' of the music is more significant when the
drums, bass, etc come in the music. The music sounds like it is played
on old bad speakers.

Sorry for my bad English. I hope you can understand what I am trying to
express. ^.^"

I just found out that when I play the mp3 in mpg321 in terminal, it
sounds as good as it is played in Windows. But when the same song is
played using other players, they sound much worse than that. I do not
know what this could mean but I hope by stating this can help someone to
identify the problem and eventually help me to overcome it. =)

Could you run "lspci -v" as root and post the output that is associated with
your sound card or sound hardware?



On 5/13/07, *Tim* <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 17:05 +0800, Guo Lin wrote:
> Hi, I am a very new user of Fedora Core 6. Since I started to use FC6,
> I notice significant difference in sound quality as compared to
> Windows.
> As far as I notice, the sound in FC6 turns noticably bad especially
> when bass comes in the music.

Beyond some fault causing distortion, I can't see why one would be
different than the other, it's the same hardware producing the sound.
The only think I can think of is: Are you boosting the bass in Windows,
and noticing that difference? I haven't seen tone controls on a Linux
control panel, and artificially boosting bass doesn't really compensate
for crappy speakers.

The other thing that springs to mind, is having a duff audio cable,
where the ground isn't properly connected. Instead of getting left and
right signals, you end up with a mono signal comprised of left minus
right, which seriously drops the bass down, as well as introducing other
odd phasing errors.

What are you playing, though? And how are you listening? MP3s were
notorious for having crap bass, and a less than brilliant decoder
doesn't help.

And what do you mean by bad? Distorting? Lacking in bass? Something
else?

For what it's worth, on my various PCs, the sound sounds the same
whatever OS is driving it. For any file format (an ogg on Windows
versus an ogg on Linux, and so on, but not ogg versus MP3), and whether
using those crappy PC speakers, or the Wharfedales on the stereo system.

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