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Re: Inferior sound quality

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:15:07PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543.
> The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox
> as music player, and VLC occasionally).
> Today, I used Windows for a while, and experienced far better and more
> dynamic sound quality on same earphone and for the same track (Rolling in
> the Deep :P).
> 
> I have both alsamixer and pulseaudio installed.
> Can anyone help me out to improve sound quality?
> 
> Regards
> Himanshu Shekhar



O boy!
music is such a subjective topic which is hard to quantify.
Usually soundcards expect the information to be presented as PCM.
That is a digital representation of the analog sound information.
However your music files are most likely MP3 or some other format. The
conversion of these file formats to PCM is done in sofware. MP3 specially
still has some patent issues which means that most likely the conversion in
free software is different than in propietary software.
Another possibility is that the windows software automatically applies a
"profile" during the conversion based on the type of music (equalizer
functionality). That can lead to the perception this music is "more
dynamic".
I would say you should try an equalizer on linux and see if you can shape
your music output more to your liking.

-H


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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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Inferior sound quality Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-02-23 18:50 +0100
  Re: Inferior sound quality Pete Orrall <pete@cs1x.com> - 2016-02-23 19:50 +0100
    Re: Inferior sound quality Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-02-23 20:00 +0100
      Re: Inferior sound quality Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-02-23 20:40 +0100
        Re: Inferior sound quality Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-02-23 21:00 +0100
          Re: Inferior sound quality Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-02-23 22:20 +0100
    Re: Inferior sound quality Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 20:10 +0100
  Re: Inferior sound quality Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-02-23 22:10 +0100
    Re: Inferior sound quality Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-02-24 06:40 +0100
      Re: Inferior sound quality Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 08:20 +0100
        Re: Inferior sound quality Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-13 11:30 +0100

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