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Harsh Sounding High End Audio Playback
JimH:
You could post a file on dropbox and see if anyone else can hear the problem you report.
Awesome Donkey:
Unless all your media is 48 kHz to begin with, those two apps are resampling all audio to 48 kHz in the background because of the Mac HDMI 48 kHz sample rate limitation. The question is if the apps themselves are doing it with their own resampling feature(s) or if the macOS system mixer is doing it silently in the background. I'm going to bet it's the latter here, especially if one of the apps is Apple Music.
The difference is, Media Center handles all resampling itself with the SSRC resampler (which is the default) or the SoX resampler when you enable the feature. SoX should pretty much be one of the best resampling algorithms available, so it's kinda odd to hear even after using the SoX resampler it still sounds different. Generally, regardless of OS, Media Center won't allow the system mixer to do it, unless exclusive mode is disabled, then maybe playback goes through the system mixer. Bob would likely know for sure how it works on macOS and CoreAudio.
BillT:
--- Quote from: Birchman on June 02, 2023, 01:08:55 pm ---Something I would like to point out to the developers of JRiver is that this post has had over 2,500 views in just a few days. What might be reasonable to infer here is that my concern and observations might not be entirely random.
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I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Views don't mean that anyone else has the same issue.
I don't have a Mac, but am viewing the thread for the entertainment value!
Birchman:
That was not a concrete conclusion but an observation that others might be having the same problem.
AGAWA:
"This problem seems to be similar to compression problems found when an audio engineer boosts the high or mid range in a remastering."
this is EQ not compression.
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