On 06/25/10 12:08, bl4 wrote: > Suppose I have cheap onboard soundcard and cheap speakers, two different > music players (for example mpd and mplayer) with the same output > interface (both using alsa or both using oss compatibility layer), no > resampling, filters or anything, with dmix disabled and no other > software mixers. Is it normal (or possible) that for the same audio > files each player will produce noticeably different (in terms of > quality) sound? In other words, does the choice of music player have any > impact on final sound quality? If the data is identical: No. If you play back compressed data, and the players use different methods for uncompressing/reconstruction, the resulting PCM stream may differ. And then you *may* hear a difference. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
