Sound Quality Problem
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun May 13 13:00:44 UTC 2007
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 at yahoo.com.au
> <mailto:ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>> 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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> (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's
> important to the thread.)
>
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