<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Ahnelöv</b> <<a href="mailto:operagasten@gmail.com">operagasten@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>After probing my system with chuck --probe, I found out that my sound<br>card only supported 16 bit-audio. Is that why it sounds like someone<br>have applied great amount of compression on the audio? Can someone test<br>
if this is true on other systems aswell?<br><br>(Ah, yeah, I've added a lowpass filter to the patch, but that shouldn't<br>do that, right?)</blockquote><div><br>Well, no, remember that plain audio CD's are 16 bit too and those *can* sound marvelous. There are limitations to 16 bit but with regard to listening I'd say that for dynamics neighbours are a larger bottleneck then 16 bit (asuming a linear implementation).
<br><br>LP filters shouldn't compress, unless of course most of your dynamics are in the high end, in that case you'll end up with less dynamics (but not realy compression as such).<br><br>The sad thing is that cheap soundcards have cheap DAC's and cheap DAC's tend to have problems in the high end which is a bad match for fm which already has a tendency towards aliassing. IF you have good ears that can get quite offensive.
<br><br>Sorry, just packed up the big soundcard so I can't test your piece right now. You could try rendering it to .wav and burning it to CD to test on the nearest hi-fi?<br> </div><br>Hope that helps a bit?<br>Kas.<br>
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