wow - no eq

eracer2006

eracer2006

eracer2006

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turned the eq on my hifi onto "flat" with the sub on mid (no eq just power)

Turned off everything on the x-fi except for the crystaliser which is on max.

Listened to fav album - Three 6 Mafia - Chapter 2 - World Domination


and all i can say is WOW it actually sounds so much better, clearer, and still too bassy if i put the sub on max, however NOT distortion like it was before.

Cant wait till i get my seperates and floor standers, but still sounds pretty amazing considering im only using the right bookshelf unit, a creative soundworks cube on the left, and a car sub lol. (not got enough speaker wire to use left bookshelf)
 
When you've got your setup sorted, turn off the Crystalizer as well. I've never used the crystalyzer on my x-fi as tbh it sounds pap compared to the original sound. Eq's such as the crystalizer do nothing but colour the sound, adding artificial bass and treble to kid you into thinking it sounds 'better' when in fact the end product sounds nothing like what was originally intended!

There's a lot to be said for keeping things pure.
 
doesnt the crystaliser take out the grain in the track ?

Its sad that im using mp3 and not wav files, but hey i think i need to buy another black cd drive so i can listen straight off cd and still play BF2 ?

Justin Timberlakes new album FutureSexy sounds awesome in mum and dads cars, audi tt and audi a3 respectivly, both have bose sound systems, whereas my golf only had what i put in, streetbass over SQ.

Do cables really make a difference, currently using 2p per metre types.
 
Nope, Crystalizer is nothing more than a glorified EQ that Creative market as a tool for bringing mp3s back to life. It's all sophistry of course.

As I said, there's nothing wrong with using Mp3s. Different people will be able to discern the difference between a decent mp3 and the orignal recording to differing degrees. As a rule I won't listen to anything less than 192kb/s as I can easily tell the difference from cd. I try not to get mp3s less than 256 kb/s and I'm in the lengthy process of re-aquiring/re-recording my music in FLAC.

The difference between playing FLAC tracks off my PC and playing them off cd from my cd72 is quite marked to my ears; I wouldn't say one is better per se, rather, they're just 'different'. Coupled with a good dac( which I've yet to buy!), I reckon FLAC is the way forward as you get all the benefits of a decent cdp reproduction with the bonus of being able to select tracks wirelessly using a pda as a remote.
 
As a rule I won't listen to anything less than 192kb/s
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Try 128kps vbr OGG ;)

sounds awesome in mum and dads cars, audi tt and audi a3 respectivly, both have bose sound systems,
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lol you don't have a ear for sound quality.

I reckon FLAC is the way forward as you get all the benefits of a decent cdp reproduction with the bonus of being able to select tracks wirelessly using a pda as a remote.
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I have my music collection as flac, played over lan with squeezebox's, or with winamp (shared music directory)
 
Yeah, I'd like to go the squeezebox route but I can't justify the expense! I never got into the ogg thing despite many people touting it's obvious improvement over bog standard mp3s.

I find other people ideas and perceptions on types of media quite interesting as many people are quick to point out their setups but never seem to take into account the massive difference their room and layout makes to music. My own setup is pretty modest but I'm certain that I could make things sound 'better' if I was able to improve the acoustics of my sitting room!

I liked the comment on Bose kit in cars - the majority of Bose equipped car ICE's I've heard have been bloody awful and completely over priced/hyped. Again, each to their own I suppose. I'll never get decent sound quality in the Elise as I can't really hear anything but the wind and the Larini exhaust when the roof's off!
 
I'd like to go the squeezebox route but I can't justify the expense! I never got into the ogg thing despite many people touting it's obvious improvement over bog standard mp3s.
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SB are great things, I have two. Much easier than using a PC, as you can just relax on your couch browsing music, not "using a PC" like in winamp. You just have slimserver service on one PC, each SB is connected to your LAN which then comminicates to the server PC. You can control each SB from the server, and of course from each SB itself.

It's a shame OGG wasen't replacement for MP3, I let a Naim audio buff blind listen identical file size VBR, and he picked out OGG as superior sounding everytime, in face he preferred 128kps VBR OGG over a much higher bitrate MP3, even 192kps MP3 VBR LAME.

At the time lossy was a pipedream, due to filesize and limited HD sizes, but nowadays with 500GB you can store entire collection as lossless.
 
squiffy said:
hardly any portable DAP's support it. Even less support than OGG.
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no way is that true.

All of archos' products support wma
All of creative's products support wma
All of iaudio's products support wma (iirc)
zune supports wma
All of samsung's products support wma
All of iriver's products support wma
All of napster's products support wma

It would be easier to make a list of mp3 players that dont support wma
 
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ipod doesnt support wma which is probably sells more in a year than all of those mp3 players you mentioned put together..
 
As Squiffy says, HD prices are so cheap now, that I don't know why anyone would use a format other than FLAC (at least for home use). I've got 503 CDs into 170GB. And yes, the SB is a brill piece of kit.
 
the thing is though how many mp3 players can fit 170gb worth of music? for an audiophile then sure go ahead convert all your music but for the average joe who has a 30gb ipod then i dont think its the wisest move..
 
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ipod doesnt support wma which is probably sells more in a year than all of those mp3 players you mentioned put together..
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It also doesn't support ogg so seeing as we were comparing ogg with wma that argument makes no sense
 
Holy thread revival..
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the thing is though how many mp3 players can fit 170gb worth of music? for an audiophile then sure go ahead convert all your music but for the average joe who has a 30gb ipod then i dont think its the wisest move..
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I ripped all my music to FLAC, then ran a copy of the FLAC files down to mp3s, for using on mobiles/mp3 players/laptop at work it is invaluable whilst using the FLAC for serious listening at home etc :) Didn't add up to a huge amount of extra space for the mp3s either.. now to invest in some SB action at home ;)
 
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