'from Linux Audio Users' (https://lwn.net/Articles/542664/)
From: Ben Bell <bjb-linux-audio-user-TyrVtz9mvJ4-AT-public.gmane.org>
To: Jeremy Jongepier
<jeremy-ZBSUaDdsfOGukZHgTAicrQ-AT-public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa and 24-bit in Ubuntu Studio?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:02:49 +0000
Message-ID: <20130308100249.gb...@deus.net>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0100, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 06:45 AM, david wrote:
>> Yah, but which one sounds better - Windows or Linux? ;-)
> Linux of course if you have to believe the audiophile forums.
Well obviously. Anyone with ears can tell you that.
More importantly, does a vintage kernel sound better than a more recent
one?
I've been doing some testing and the results are pretty clear, not that
they should surprise anyone who knows anything about recording:
1) Older kernels sound much warmer than newer ones.
2) Kernels compiled by hand on the machine they run on sound less
sterile
than upstream distro provided ones which also tend to have flabby
low
end response and bad stereo imaging.
3) As if it needed saying, gcc4 is a disaster for sound quality. I
mean,
seriously if you want decent audio and you use gcc4 you may as well
be
recording with a tin can microphone.
4) Kernels sound better after they've been worn in a bit. Don't expect
your
newly built 2.4 kernel to have that warm sound until you've run with
it
for a few weeks, but for a really classy sound here's a trick:
compile the
kernel and then put it somewhere safe (ext2 partition, obviously) to
mellow
for a month and then boot into it at the last minute before you
start
recording an important session. Your clients will thank you.
Ben
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