Hi
I just want to weigh in here with an observation... I recently implemented Sox resampling with Rune 0.4b and was really pleased with the results. It made the world of difference. Or so I thought...
Janui tested the same implementation and had the opposite opinion, which got me thinking.... I decided to disable the resampling for a while to see if I really noticed a difference or if it was just a placebo.
During this time without resampling enabled I rearranged my living room, where the system is situated, and accidentally moved the speakers closer to the rear wall.
The result was an instant and significant change in the quality of the sound. That simple change effected the sound more than any amount of fiddling about with the audio source has ever done. In fact it resolved a specific issue I was having with the sound that I was contemplating all kinds of interventions to try and fix.
The moral of the story is: when you're down in the tiny details you miss the bigger picture. The fact is that no matter how bit-perfect and pristine your source is, the source is
not the sound. The
sound is fluctuations in air pressure coming out of the speakers, bouncing around the room and hitting your eardrums. Yes you can improve things with better equipment, but digging around for tiny improvements and arguing about the results as though they are anything other than subjective is just nonsense. Especially when speakers a few inches closer to a wall makes more of a difference.
I still love doing it though..... can't resist fiddling.
