New Audio Server Discussion

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

Excellent sounds Avian and VAX. I really notice the difference.

I agree about the community that is Aural Moon. It's an honour to be a part of it and contribute whenever I can. Keep it going and there will be a lot of happy people around.

OK, enough of this...

You're getting a stream of bits defined by a standard. The standard hasn't changed nor has the bits as they were recorded when the CDs were ripped. The same bits that were sent to you before are being sent now, so there's no way that there is any noticable sound improvement -- unless you've changed your gear to reproduce those bits.

[lotus]

Vax, Avian told that there is a feature in SAM that is high quality seting (or something like that).

Could this mean, that, as the music is on 192 kbs on the server, SAM uses better algorythms to grade it down to 128 kbs, as we have now a faster processor?

I agree with KW (maybe we have a psycho thing or so) that it sounds better now.

[Avian]

Originally Posted by VAXman

OK, enough of this...

You're getting a stream of bits defined by a standard. The standard hasn't changed nor has the bits as they were recorded when the CDs were ripped. The same bits that were sent to you before are being sent now, so there's no way that there is any noticable sound improvement -- unless you've changed your gear to reproduce those bits.

Don't forget about the amount of encoding and reencoding that goes on in a system like this. The mp3 encoders were set to Medium quality, I believe to save CPU. So now they're at High because of the new server.

The other thing that I think most people are hearing is that there is some compression and other FX that's on the music. It was on there by default. If everyone likes it, I'll keep it.