Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 26-11-07 03:35, Bill Unruh wrote: [ the loudness war ] Clipping nor analogue distortion by the way is the problem. As said, it's the range compression to _avoid_ the clipping that they have to do when they master at these insane averages -- when you then later play them back at

[Alsa-user] Regarding Bug ID 0002475 (Power off shows acpi_power_off called and hangs)

2007-11-26 Thread Khelben Blackstaff
Hello. I post to ask if there is any progress on this bug ? I saw the bug some time ago but it still exists on 2.6.24-rc2 and it is annoying to run rmmod snd-hda-intel before i need to power off the machine. My motherboard is not the same as the original poster's. Mine is the Asus P5AD2 Premium

Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with INTEL audio card

2007-11-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 25 November 2007 19:08, Wolfgang P. Rauchholz wrote: Hi Wolfgang. Please don't use HTML when replying to the list. Looking at the output from when you ran the script, some stuff seems to be missing. For example alsa-lib is not installed, and the only snd module loaded is the

Re: [Alsa-user] best card for bitperfect SPDIF I/O?with?external clock sync ?

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:19:24 +0100 Benoit Rouits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 18:26 +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin a écrit : That's the main reason why I asked - I heard that people can hear 22khz or about that when they are

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Rene Herman wrote: On 25-11-07 04:18, Mark Constable wrote: There are a few online hearing test sites around, here is one with 16/44.1 wavs. I can't hear 12kHz-0dB.wav :-( http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/dB/loudness.html Word of warning -- the outcome here will significantly vary with

Re: [Alsa-user] best card for bitperfect SPDIF I/O?with?external clock sync ?

2007-11-26 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:52:17 -0800 (PST) Bill Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:19:24 +0100 Benoit Rouits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 18:26 +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin a écrit : That's the main

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:26:48 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in case anyone is interested. Writes S16_LE to stdout, so intended to be used as: $ sine -f freq -d dbspl | aplay -f cd -r rate for

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 02:26, Rene Herman wrote: Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in case anyone is interested. Writes S16_LE to stdout, so intended to be used as: $ sine -f freq -d dbspl | aplay -f cd -r rate for setting a different rate than 44100: $ sine -f

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 27-11-07 02:41, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:26:48 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in case anyone is interested. Writes S16_LE to stdout, so intended to be used as: Well,

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:48:20 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27-11-07 02:41, Sergei Steshenko wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:26:48 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Wrote a small sine generator during this test by the way -- attached just in case

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mark Constable wrote: On 2007-11-27 12:22 pm, Rene Herman wrote: Mmm, and now that I look at it again: ampl = 32767.0 / pow(10, -dbfs / 20); is the same as: ampl = 32767 * pow(10, dbfs / 20); which looks somewhat nicer. How about a copyright, license,

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Constable
On 2007-11-27 01:19 pm, Bill Unruh wrote: A point is that these kind of hearing tests are almost useless in absolute terms but are indeed meaningful when tested and accumulated results are compared with for any particular individual. The consistent mean is to set up the listening

Re: [Alsa-user] Bitperfect Ears

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mark Constable wrote: On 2007-11-27 01:19 pm, Bill Unruh wrote: A point is that these kind of hearing tests are almost useless in absolute terms but are indeed meaningful when tested and accumulated results are compared with for any particular individual. The consistent