Hello All,
Not having TV anymore, I've been watching my shows streamed lately and it's been brutal on my ears. All computer listening is through Adam A7s and A8 sub and they display every detail of distortion - especially in the high frequencies. Lots of high pitched whining and clipping -it's really hard on my uber sensitive ears.
I tried srs audio sandbox but it sounded really bad, didn't seem to be much else out there like it.
There's probably a really simple solution or program out there for this...here are some ideas I was pondering:
1- Ideally I'd like to have a nice set of 'home stereo' speakers and an amp for this kind of listening and referencing, but it's the last thing I can spend money on right now.
2- A plugin for windows media player that would also work for streamed internet content
3- A plugin for firefox
4- I'm using an Audiophile 192, is it possible to use some kind of addon (like vsts) to apply effects to the main output?
5- Possibly route the main audio output through ableton so I can have it's effects at my disposal?
Can I Improve Window's Audio Output?
It's because there are not audio standards (at least obeyed ones) on the net for media content... People compress and brick-wall the living crap out of everything and when the video/audio is encoded everything clips to shit. The encode process, and even re-encode process is the problem really. There is no part of the encode that pre-checks for how much gain occurs when the data loss boosts other frequencies...
The files themselves are clipped. Turning down the volume only turns down the volume of the clipped sound. A real time clip and peak removal in drivers/dsp or something could work, but really it all boils back down to the encode and re-encode on the various sites.
US TV standards are typically -20dB(RMS) I believe and -18dB(RMS) in EU... If people actually followed that for web video content, we wouldn't have much of an issue.
The files themselves are clipped. Turning down the volume only turns down the volume of the clipped sound. A real time clip and peak removal in drivers/dsp or something could work, but really it all boils back down to the encode and re-encode on the various sites.
US TV standards are typically -20dB(RMS) I believe and -18dB(RMS) in EU... If people actually followed that for web video content, we wouldn't have much of an issue.