In Reply to: New CMP machine - where'd my bass go? posted by needtubes on July 1, 2012 at 20:33:11:
I currently have two virtually identical computers except for the motherboard (because I could not get the same Gigabyte motherboard a few months later) and the OS (the first has XP, the other has Vista). Sonically the two computers couldn’t sound more different. IMO Vista sucks big time but maybe it’s the particular Gigabyte motherboard model that sucks. I have used cMP/cPlay, MediaMonkey, XXHighEnd, JRMC, Audiogate and perhaps some others, though these are my preferred players. They all suck on my Vista computer, though I could never get XXHighEnd to work on my XP computer. Fortunately I have another but significantly different Vista computer (stock Dell) and XXHighEnd sounds great.
If my only venture into computer audio was with my Gigabyte MB /Vista computer, I would rant that computer audio SUCKS BIGTIME and that CD players are superior. Since I have other computer music servers, I know better.
I don’t think that you missed anything. I would also say that the cMP/cPlay code is fantastic. My advice is to ditch the inferior sounding computer (use it for something else) and move on.
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- Quality control of computer parts for audio can result in significant sonic difference - audiozorro 11:13:34 07/02/12 (36)
- Computers - Dynobot 06:49:51 07/03/12 (28)
- I blame the DAC - bwb 08:11:37 07/03/12 (27)
- So do I. nt - Tony Lauck 17:45:41 07/03/12 (26)
- It's the combination - fmak 22:08:00 07/03/12 (25)
- audiophool bluster - Tony Lauck 07:22:16 07/04/12 (22)
- you are arguing past each other - bwb 09:24:14 07/04/12 (3)
- RE: you are arguing past each other - AbeCollins 12:21:33 07/04/12 (2)
- Interesting Opinions considering - Dynobot 13:25:24 07/04/12 (1)
- RE: Interesting Opinions considering - AbeCollins 14:31:30 07/04/12 (0)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 08:41:03 07/04/12 (15)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 10:12:26 07/04/12 (14)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Dynobot 11:10:55 07/04/12 (5)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 11:39:36 07/04/12 (4)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 12:49:37 07/04/12 (3)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 21:58:09 07/04/12 (2)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 06:15:55 07/05/12 (1)
- Computaphool bluster? - fmak 06:30:18 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 11:06:20 07/04/12 (7)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 12:04:13 07/04/12 (6)
- early reflections - fmak 12:55:55 07/04/12 (5)
- Thanks for the useless non-answer to my simple questions. nt - Tony Lauck 15:14:12 07/04/12 (4)
- Appropriate answers to wrong questions - fmak 22:00:07 07/04/12 (0)
- and you are somehow suprised ???? - bwb 20:34:43 07/04/12 (0)
- LOL and been there done that, wink wink - nt - AbeCollins 20:23:53 07/04/12 (1)
- Applephool always? - fmak 23:19:06 07/04/12 (0)
- large = subjective Re: differences in sound - Dynobot 07:42:32 07/04/12 (1)
- RE: large = subjective Re: differences in sound - Tony Lauck 09:16:38 07/04/12 (0)
- How many people experienced NO difference in software/hardware changes - Dynobot 06:03:24 07/04/12 (1)
- .but to the its all 1's and 0's camp none of it [should] make a difference - bwb 06:53:31 07/04/12 (0)
- Vista - fmak 11:52:18 07/02/12 (6)
- RE: Vista slimming - Dynobot 08:47:09 07/03/12 (0)
- RE: Vista - audiozorro 12:22:53 07/02/12 (4)
- RE: Vista - rick_m 19:16:19 07/02/12 (3)
- RE: Vista-Some - fmak 23:00:17 07/02/12 (2)
- RE: Vista-Some - rick_m 16:48:13 07/04/12 (1)
- RE: Vista-Some-Win7 starter - fmak 23:02:59 07/04/12 (0)