ytfmichaelxu
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Hi. Everyone. I am newly registered but I had been lurking on this forum for months. I think I found a worthy topic to talk about.
I find my music to have noticeable superior dynamic range and clarity when played on Foobar and VLC than on iTunes. VLC and Foobar sounded smoother and the vocals and instruments had so much presence while Itunes sounded dull and had narrower soundstage.
I am playing the same lossless format for all three players, and the difference is evident to me. So I browsed other audiophile forums to gain some insight on why this phenomenon occurs.
Anyway, here are the things I read that are suppose to make iTunes sound identical to the other two players.
-Disable iTunes' Equalizer.
-Disable iTunes Sound Enhancer
-Disable Soundcheck on iTunes.
-Change Quicktime Audio Preference to SafeMode "waveOut" only
The sad part is, these four options are all my defaults. So that didn't help me at all, VLC and Foobar both sounded identical to me while iTunes sounded inferior to the former. I still use iTunes because I just love the user interface with Coverflow and nice sorting options. I am seriously disappointed that iTunes is not delivering the maximum sound quality.
I would like to hear opinions from the people on headfi, please reply to this thread and let me know if you could tell the difference in sound quality with the programs I mentioned.
My setup - Core 2 Duo processor 2.1 GHz with 4GB ram running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
- Nuforce Icon HD DAC/AMP
- Sennheiser HD650
Update------ I read that quicktime player cannot be bit perfect no matter what lossless file you play because the music will always go through filter while playing under it. Found the topic under computeraudiofile forum with the topic"Quicktime Windows Audio Session Option, Am I Bit Perfect"
I find my music to have noticeable superior dynamic range and clarity when played on Foobar and VLC than on iTunes. VLC and Foobar sounded smoother and the vocals and instruments had so much presence while Itunes sounded dull and had narrower soundstage.
I am playing the same lossless format for all three players, and the difference is evident to me. So I browsed other audiophile forums to gain some insight on why this phenomenon occurs.
Anyway, here are the things I read that are suppose to make iTunes sound identical to the other two players.
-Disable iTunes' Equalizer.
-Disable iTunes Sound Enhancer
-Disable Soundcheck on iTunes.
-Change Quicktime Audio Preference to SafeMode "waveOut" only
The sad part is, these four options are all my defaults. So that didn't help me at all, VLC and Foobar both sounded identical to me while iTunes sounded inferior to the former. I still use iTunes because I just love the user interface with Coverflow and nice sorting options. I am seriously disappointed that iTunes is not delivering the maximum sound quality.
I would like to hear opinions from the people on headfi, please reply to this thread and let me know if you could tell the difference in sound quality with the programs I mentioned.
My setup - Core 2 Duo processor 2.1 GHz with 4GB ram running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
- Nuforce Icon HD DAC/AMP
- Sennheiser HD650
Update------ I read that quicktime player cannot be bit perfect no matter what lossless file you play because the music will always go through filter while playing under it. Found the topic under computeraudiofile forum with the topic"Quicktime Windows Audio Session Option, Am I Bit Perfect"