sbgk wrote:...
I use -a 1 -b 1000:2000000 -q and don't have issues with edgy sound, think the smaller buffer sizes that some people prefer can introduce noise of their own, but some people like that.
Gordon
More details equals less jitter, better timing, and less noise.
Relaxed sound presentation equals less noise and less jitter.
Less jitter means:
- improved ease of listening
- increased clarity
- improved high frequency response
- better instrument separation
- more information
- better timing
- better soundstage
- improved overall audio performance
These effects are all correlated to measured jitter in audio.
These are the kind of things I feel MQn is still doing better than JLP.
I think many people think more details is 'digital sounding', but it is not. It is opposite, it is more true, it is more revealing. Details in bass are high frequency signals riding on top of low frequency.
The warm round, so called analogue sound is a limited level of reproduction with lack of details and a closed in character to the sound.
It is something I associate with the vinyl era, which is very limited by definition. Music mastered for vinyl production only expects to have a maximum of 16 kHz reproduction (if at that level at all) and in the lower ranges all is mastered as a mono signal and not a stereo signal.
Trying to reproduce a vinyl-like analogue character in sound reproduction is throwing away everything the new digital era is capable of, just because it sounds differently then some are used to hearing.
Cheers
Aleg