Jul 25, 2007
Your mp3 player will sound better! Don't worry, you don't have to patch your mp3 player software or restoration hardware. Two main tools affecting sound quality can be used by everyone.
Headphones. Unfortunately the stereo headphones bundled with mp3 player have poor sound quality in most cases. You wish to change headphones to improve sound quality of mp3 players. You cannot choose between wireless headphones, bose headphones or sony headphones. Good cans are a key factor of sound quality. The headphones won't cost you less than $50 and you have to listen them with your mp3 player before purchase. But beforehand the player has to be loaded with hobbies home recording of appropriate quality.
Recording quality. Even the cheapest mp3 player handles music files of two or three different audio formats and bitrates. The higher the bit rate the higher sound quality and bigger file size. Optimal trade off between sound quality and file size is hard to achieve in practice. Web site SoundExpert helps to solve exactly this problem with mp3 player. Sound quality of various audio formats ( audio codecs: wma mp3 and aac ) at different bitrates is rated there by thousands of audio enthusiasts and music lovers. As sound quality is a prime interest for us now we choose the audio codecs and bitrates which have the ratings above 6.0. In the case we'll not hear any sound artifacts produced by codec and overall sound quality will depend on headphones exclusively. In short, the chosen audio format (codec):
- must be supported by your player
- must be rated above 6.0 at SoundExpert
- must have the lowest bitrate
Now you can convert your favorite CD with chosen codec, upload compressed music to the mp3 player and go for new cans ( new stereo headphones ).
In no doubt you will love your mp3 player and love music even more after this not too complicated upgrade.
Web service SoundExpert offers new approach to evaluation of sound quality of various audio equipment and sound technologies. They are tested blindly by volunteers on the site and corresponding ratings of perceived sound quality are calculated in real time. At the moment only audio compression technologies like wma mp3 , aac etc. are tested. Digital mp3 players and sound cards will appear in future as well.
On SoundExpert site you can:
- find sound quality ratings of various codecs at different bitrates
and compare them with each other
- take part in testing; it's easy and will help to make ratings more
accurate and reliable
- propose some new codec for testing because SoundExpert is created
for you and by audio enthusiasts like you
- help authors with food and money :-))
Have a nice listening and keep your audio clear!
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