For one decoder to be better than others, there must be some differences.
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> How can they say 'sounds better' if you almost get a to-the-bit equal audio
> stream as with another decoder?
Well, the fact is Sonique "colours" the music. The output of Sonique is
different from the original sound. But that does not always mean that it will
sound worse to the ears. If you us
Hello John,
JC> Many people have sworn sonique sounds best. I'm guilty too. But if two
JC> other decoders agree and sonique disagrees, what does that mean... ?
I re-installed sonique 1.30 after a (very) brief period of 1.50-1.51.
I don't understand this. How can they say 'sounds better' if you
> Many people have sworn sonique sounds best. I'm guilty too. But if two
> other decoders agree and sonique disagrees, what does that mean... ?
>
> John
Beeing the best sounding does not means beeing the most mp3 compliant.
Perhaps some extra tricks can be done for improving the sound quality, b
Hi folks,
A little offtopic, but somebody might be interested...
I repeated the decoder test done by Matthew Lloyd in his post last
month. I compared Sonique 1.51, Winamp using the mpg123 plugin, and
Winamp using the fraunhofer plugin (aka winamp 2.22)
This test involves comparing the right cha