Saturday 24 June 2017

Music System - More thoughts and ideas, tips & tricks


The second idea is that costlier systems will produce music at a larger scale. A 3 inch woofer cannot produce sound like a 4 inch woofer. The first system has 3", the 2nd 4" & the last a 5" woofer.

Another idea is that amp, speaker combination is kind of hard to pin down, so we go for active or powered speakers.

DAC is a very important part of the system and it should not be ignored. In fact DAC decides sound characteristics and amp, speaker reproduce those characteristics.

Use of special speaker wires & USB cables is very profitable as they dont cost much but improve the sound by a lot (for the money spent).

Tips
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- Use higher bitrate music files. MP3s have 128, 224, 320 & other bitrates. Try to get hold of 320kbps MP3 or 256kbps AAC files.

- Try to use WASAPI driver in your Audio player. It produces a more natural sound. I use foobar2000 with WASAPI component. The guide for how to download, install & configure foobar can be found here.
I dont use fidelizer though. Because I see that it doesnt go well with my system.

Thats all I have for now.

Hope you enjoyed the posts and that they were useful.
Remember to get at least a small DAC as there is enough noise in the default audio of laptops and desktops to cause harm to us.
You dont drink dirty water do you?

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