Happy Birthday, John Atkinson
Happy Birthday, John Atkinson
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Hi,
I think I need some hand holding.
Today, I updated Windows Media Player to 11 Beta and fired up a cd - it sounds alot better than before. Better liquidity and timbre. I'm actually a little impressed.
Then I saw the thread about sound cards.
I checked my computer control panel uunder sound devices, audio. It says I have a SoundMAX Digital Audio whatever. That's the sound card, I take it.
So the question: What am I listening to, Windows Media Player, the SoundMAX thing, or both?
All we really want to hear from our systems is the music, but sometimes there is still a little unwanted noise tagging along for the ride. Do you have any humms, buzzes, or other unwanted noises emanating from your audio system? What do you do about it?
Hola,
I really like the thread about what the relative importance of each piece of the audio chain contributes to the over-all sound. It made me want to try and see what people think about in terms of how they ration out their expectations of what a system does or should do - how they would rate the relative importance of performance characteristics.
So how about a thread regarding system balance in terms of aspects of sound, rather than which components are most responsible for that sound?
So first, some words: