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I been reading on the forum everyone is recommending the foobar 2000 as the best audio player, however when I get a chance to test it out compare to my original "KM Player" a lot less energy and weaker in term of instrumental presentation, so I would like someone here to test it out see if my theory.

 

Step 1: download KM Player

Step 2: once you finish installation, right click on the player go to options then select preferences

Step 3: on the left screen click on "audio processing" then to the right where it say "renderer" select the proper input, for example: USB Audio DAC (on my E9)

Step 4: there is a small triangle next to audio processing for drop down click on it, the first tab is volume and click it, to the right check off on "pre-amplify AC3/DTS volume to proper level" and "use the master volume of the system to control volume" box and set the volume steps to 10

Step 5: now to the left click on Crystality/ Noise reduction tab, on the right check off on the Enable box

Step 6: now click on the Equalizer tab on the left, on the right select the middle option "Time-Domain Equalizer (support 16bits/all channels)"

Step 7: hit close on the right bottom, then closed the KM player.  Open up KM player again test any music against the foobar 2000, see if you can hear the difference.

 

Just want to know some of you guys feedback on the sound impression between the two media players and thanks for testing it out.

post #2 of 4

I'm downloading it now. I'll do a test later when the kids are asleep.

post #3 of 4
there is a major reason you are hearing a difference... you have a bunch of processing enabled

turn it all off and compare to foobar... you'll notice the sound quality is the same

and if you want a bunch of processing there is a rather large selection of DSP components for foobar floating around on the internet
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Thread Starter 

You are right about the processing affecting the sound, I guess it give me a different impression since I had that setting for my movies. 

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