Subject: Re: Audio question: Sound quality change on CD.
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/28/2004 14:55:56
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 03:33:01PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
 [...]
> > I don't think that he owns a laptop.  (^&
> 
> Well, s/laptop/computer/.  The first point stands.  (Although I may have 
> gotten confused about which one you said was clearer.)

I probably wasn't too clear.


> > I can check with one of the station engineers the next time I'm in
> > there.  But that wouldn't explain the variation that I observed on
> > my own system.  I don't have an equalizer.
> 
> Most receivers and computer audio devices have a bass/treble balance control, 
> which is a sort of crude equalizer, even if they don't have a full-blown 
> equalizer with all the bells and whistles.

From the sound of it, this and other factors probably contribute
to explaining it.  I'll just have to balance it as best I can guess
and not worry past a certain point.

Thanks to you, and to others, for helpful comments.

-- 
  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  http://www.olib.org/~rkr/