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gbr2004uk
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Posted: 26 Feb 2018 at 12:08am |
Just discovered after all these years of using foobar2000 that with the Graphic Equaliser, in the DSP Manager section, not only can you to a decent extent cut some of the harshness in the high frequency peaks, but you can also independently vary these in the right and left channels (and you can also independently vary the volume). This is of great use to me because of personal auditory idiosyncrasies.
Whether this alters the sound is something I'm considering -- if there's a loss, the gain is an absence of discomfort with fortissimo high violin notes! Does anyone have any experience of using the GEq with foobar, or any other software? Thanks in advance. All best Brian
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Graham Slee
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Tone and balance controls can be a great asset especially when used to benefit the listener.
Now to lose everyone: the proviso is that DSP works naturally; that is to say that phase also plays its part and not just amplitude, because in DSP anything's possible. What puts the non-measurable harsh in digital is the uncorrelated phase shifts which occur at high frequencies, where the ear can still detect, but nobody will accept the phenomenon because it hasn't been proposed by some university professor and proliferated via the media. In the real world, frequency specific attenuation or boost is accompanied by phase shift: -3dB for example is accompanied by a 45 degree phase shift at that frequency in a "natural" single pole filter. However, in analogue filter manipulation a steeper cut results in the same phase shift long before any attenuation occurs. If this is corrected the irritation goes away. Now think of it the other way: if DSP allows phase to be constant whilst attenuating (or boosting) the amplitude, again you have uncorrelated phase. In simple analogue tone controls - the type we've had for nearly a century - phase is correlated with the turnover frequency. |
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gbr2004uk
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Not quite lost! But I do know the flac has sounded better since I've been fiddling about with the higher frequencies on Graphic EQ. Thanks again Graham. Brian
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