VLC has the best audio quality out of any player i have ever tried

[ManBearPig]

Everything sounds so much better and...crisp on it. im trying foobar 2000 through itunes and it doesnt sound nearly as good as VLC.

 

[potato28]

If you try Foobar just by itself it sounds alot better. Might help if you use a lossless file like flac's or ogg's for those players to really shine.

 

[ManBearPig]

i see...just an observation tho. i use mp3s

 

[wazzledoozle]

I cant tell the difference between lossless files on winamp vs. VLC. Running an Audigy 2 and Logitech X-530...

AFAIK both programs output to directsound so I dont think any difference in the software would affect me anyways.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
I cant tell the difference between lossless files on winamp vs. VLC. Running an Audigy 2 and Logitech X-530...

AFAIK both programs output to directsound so I dont think any difference in the software would affect me anyways.

QFT, it's placebo effect.

 

[BladeVenom]

If you want the best quality use FLAC.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: Heen05
Everything sounds so much better and...crisp on it. im trying foobar 2000 through itunes and it doesnt sound nearly as good as VLC.

how do you do that?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: barfo

Originally posted by: Heen05
Everything sounds so much better and...crisp on it. im trying foobar 2000 through itunes and it doesnt sound nearly as good as VLC.

how do you do that?

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[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
I cant tell the difference between lossless files on winamp vs. VLC. Running an Audigy 2 and Logitech X-530...

AFAIK both programs output to directsound so I dont think any difference in the software would affect me anyways.

QFT, it's placebo effect.

Another possibility is that one program or another is modifying/filtering the sound in some way (through equalizer settings, or more advanced/complex filtering). Something that makes the sound 'crisper' or 'brighter' may fool someone into thinking it is better -- similar to how turning up the brightness and color saturation will make a TV look 'better' in a casual side-by-side comparison, even though it destroys the picture quality.

Unless one program has a seriously flawed MP3 decoder -- if you turn off any post-processing, the same files played through different programs will sound identical. It's the same bits going to the same hardware.

 

[40sTheme]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
If you want the best quality use FLAC.

QFT. MP3s suck. FLAC decoded to WAV or SHN decoded to WAV works too (same quality).

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
MP3s suck.

My 320k MP3s (ripped using cdex / lame) sound good, I am unable to use FLAC due to my MP3 players, car stereo, and home entertainment devices lacking support for it. I cant really tell much of a difference between the CDs and my high quality (320k) MP3s.