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. > > -- > (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] -- Ovid
