akwok
Headphoneus Supremus
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Hey all,
So a couple of weeks ago I bought a few of Satriani CDs. Ripped them all via Apple Lossless to my computer, then started listening to them throughout the week.
The first CD sounded fine, the second CD sounded horrible. It was like the music was stuck in the center of my head, and while the highs were there it was just painful to listen to because it seemed like a whole chunk of the music was missing. I brushed this off as a bad CD recording, and didn't listen to it ever again.
Today I was browsing one of the threads here, and I eventually stumbled across an iTunes thread (which linked to the iVolume thread coincidentally). I turned off 'Sound Check', 'Volume Control', and 'Crossfade Playback' just for kicks, to see if it did anything. WOW. The difference was phenominal. There IS A SOUNDSTAGE NOW with the 'crappy' CD. It is sounding amazing!
Just wanted to share my experiences with the sound check, and provide a heads up. A horrible POS, avoid it by all means.
So a couple of weeks ago I bought a few of Satriani CDs. Ripped them all via Apple Lossless to my computer, then started listening to them throughout the week.
The first CD sounded fine, the second CD sounded horrible. It was like the music was stuck in the center of my head, and while the highs were there it was just painful to listen to because it seemed like a whole chunk of the music was missing. I brushed this off as a bad CD recording, and didn't listen to it ever again.
Today I was browsing one of the threads here, and I eventually stumbled across an iTunes thread (which linked to the iVolume thread coincidentally). I turned off 'Sound Check', 'Volume Control', and 'Crossfade Playback' just for kicks, to see if it did anything. WOW. The difference was phenominal. There IS A SOUNDSTAGE NOW with the 'crappy' CD. It is sounding amazing!
Just wanted to share my experiences with the sound check, and provide a heads up. A horrible POS, avoid it by all means.