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RE: there IS sound difference to RAM

play-mate wrote:

I´m not telling anything new to those of you have listened to different RAM modules

Assuming you’re referring to a PC, you’re right but it’s interesting to get confirmation.

I started a thread called “Does RAM quality matter?” back in January (see link) and got the usual sneers (the jokes were a bit funnier, not that that’s hard) and some interesting pointers.

I got quite intrigued by the topic, mainly because it was such an unexpected result.

Others report differently but I never had much success with tweaking timing parameters in the BIOS. Nor do I begin to know how to predict which brands will give the best results - it seems to be largely trial and error. If you search the archives, a consensus seems to have evolved though I can’t now recall what it was.

I didn’t do enough “investigation” to make it anything other than a hypothesis but I did find (and it makes sense if you think about it) that better results were likely to come from using slow-speed devices with the lowest possible latency. High-speed, high-latency devices are IME less successful.

I also found that a device that worked well on one motherboard was likely to work well on another. I even did some informal “double-blind” tests and could distinguish between the devices every time but I’m not sure that that told me much except that RAM specs do affect sound quality.

(One of the joys of my Fit-PC is that the RAM is soldered to the motherboard and there's nothing to alter . . . )

Dave




Edits: 09/11/09
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