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Why is that when I listen to an MP3 imported into iTunes, it sounds worse than listening to it with Quicktime? The file size, sample rate, and bitrate are the same. Is it my iTunes settings? What's going on?
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TC · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:15 am Post subject:

The first thing I would do is check my equalizer settings in iTunes. On a Mac you can call up the equalizer with Option-Command-2 or do it from the Window menu; not sure how it operates in Windows.

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

I don't know how it sound on a Mac, but on my PCs the QuickTime seems to have better encoding. I use QuickTime Pro, and I took iTunes off of my computers because they didn't sound good.
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tokyofan · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: re;

iTune's EQ was set to 'spoken word' but even when I switch it off or set it to 'flat' the sound seems much boomier and boxier then through Quicktime.
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tokyofan · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: re:

Hi Lance,

That might explain things! So, then by what standard do I judge my home recordings? And listening to things over an iPod and cheapo ear buds is really disheartening. I try to guage the quality of my sound via studio monitors (Yamaha), Sony headphones, and cheapo iPod earbuds (painful!). Should things sound half-way decent through everything?

By the way, I might be picking up a Speck 5.0 in the near future.

Thanks!
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Now that I think of it, I ought to get iTunes again just to see what my recordings sound like through it again. I already check out my sound on laptop speakers, car speakers, etc. from time to time. I monitor on Yamaha HS-50Ms which I think are really honest for how most people listen to recordings on consumer gear, and yet it has pro sound quality.

If you have the Grace and weren't thrilled with the Great River, I might hold off on the Speck. Maybe a hypercardiod mic would make more of a difference. Still, I love that the Speck can be Grace-clean or if you engage the pad and drive the gain to drive the output transformer you get a very nice warm sound.
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tokyofan · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject: re:

I read in some posts that you thought the Speck 5.0 was better than the Grace and has a very nice 3D image or something. A clean sound with some transformer pizzazz might be just what I need now. I didn't like the hyped low-end of the GR so much.
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Living Culture · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:29 am Post subject:

I'm not sure what the makers do with Quicktime and iTunes, but they may be like Windows Media Player, which has a built in top end boost. They may have something similar.

When I was looking for a true playback player (not good or bad, just unaltered) I found good old Winamp appears to be the one.
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