On 6 Feb 2012, at 17:28, erland wrote:
> > superbonham;688941 Wrote: >> I was unhappy with the somewhat narrow and nasal sound of my >> squezzeboxes for a long time. Inspired by this thread I changed the >> language setting of my music server from German to English and - to my >> utter surprise - the music instantly sounded better: somehow broader, >> more open (in a very cosmopolitan way); this must have been the German >> umlauts I suspect. Still there was some harshness left, mainly in soft >> vocal music. Then the scales fell from my eyes: I was still using a >> German keyboard (how could I have been so careless?). I changed it >> immediately and was awarded with silky smooth music filling my living >> room. >> >> The good thing about this revelation for us audiophiles is that there >> are of course endless combinations ahead of us waiting to be tried out. >> Lately I worried that we might run out of server tweaking options, >> having to simply enjoy music without being able to fiddle with OS >> settings - but now I am confident that the journey has just begun ... >> > I'm sure it's all in the pixels. > > A language with more pixels likely mean different CPU usage and > different noise, which will affect the sound... > > The optimal solution is if you can align the pixels on the screen so > they are aligned with the music, but that might mean that you have to > change the tags in your music files and that might have other > disadvantages... > > ;-) > Looks like a Runic localisation may be in the pipeline. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
