Re: I've found it! Something w/ ASIO that sounds better than Foobar2000

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Posted by PaVliQ on May 1, 2007 at 12:16:02

In Reply to: I've found it! Something w/ ASIO that sounds better than Foobar2000 posted by bullethead on April 8, 2007 at 08:49:36:

Yes, sometimes XMPlay+Asio sybjectively sounds better than foobar2000+ASIO (but not on all music material)

I've tested XMPlay+ASIO-32-bit and foobar2000+ASIO-32-bit on M-AUDIO REVO 5.1 on mp3 tracks.

Some live acoustic music tracks (Craig Chaquico, Acoustic Alchemy, Chris Spheeris) espesially guitar strings sounds more raw-nylon-like on XMPlay, more pleasure for some ears.

With modern synthetic, industrial-Metal music - foobar2000 sounds clear-er with more detailed pleasure-sounded synthetic noises, layed in composition by sound engeneers.

The difference is by mp3-decoders (BASS in XMPlay and mpg123 in foobar2000) mpg123 is recommended for LAME, has extremily good (digital) precicion quality and supported by Hydrogen-Audio community.

I don't now anything about objective testing of BASS mp3 decoder.

Difference on lossless formats - is only placebo.

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Topic - I've found it! Something w/ ASIO that sounds better than Foobar2000 - bullethead 08:49:36 04/08/07 (16)

Re: I've found it! Something w/ ASIO that sounds better than Foobar2000 - PaVliQ 12:16:02 05/01/07 (0)

Winner, and Still Champ..... Winamp!! - Todd Krieger 23:24:01 04/12/07 (1)

I'm using Winamp way more than Foobar now. - Presto 23:34:53 04/12/07 (0)

Sounds Flat To Me - edward 15:09:49 04/10/07 (0)

Where is the "components" folder? - Jon L 20:23:02 04/09/07 (1)

Re: Where is the "components" folder? - KeithC 23:22:17 04/09/07 (0)

What version are you using? - rick_m 20:04:30 04/08/07 (9)

Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - rick_m 20:08:48 04/08/07 (8)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - bullethead 18:29:02 04/09/07 (7)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - rick_m 19:22:03 04/09/07 (1)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - bullethead 19:35:19 04/09/07 (0)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - Dawnrazor 19:00:31 04/09/07 (4)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - bullethead 19:25:07 04/09/07 (3)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - Dawnrazor 23:16:54 04/09/07 (2)

Re: Looks like it's just the US mirror that's bad. - KeithC 23:28:14 04/09/07 (1)

THANKS!!!** - Dawnrazor 18:54:11 04/10/07 (0)

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Re: I've found it! Something w/ ASIO that sounds better than Foobar2000 - PaVliQ 12:16:02 05/01/07 (0)

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