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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:43 am Post subject: Surround HD sound comes to Windows Mobile 6 |
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Incredible but true: SRS Labs has managed to deliver genuine surround sound experience to Windows Mobile phones!
Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/6214.html |
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farnold
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Is there really anyone buying a smartphone for that reason? To me that's a sign of people not knowing what to do with their development money.
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40th Floor
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For headphones, SRS is the wrong thing. You don't want to expand, you want to mix, as in crossfeed, which mixed the non-directional frequencies of each channel with the other channel (i.e., some left channel mixes with right channel and some right mixes with left -- the same if you weren't using headphones). This app offers that:
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=252966&view=findpost&p=811316
Pro-quality reverb is also desirable (and available there), but not the typical cheap echo with which you may be familiar.
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gilesjuk
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Just having a 3.5mm socket would be enough. Only one phone I know of has one, Nokia N95.
What is wrong with having 3.5mm? you can have 3.5mm sockets with Mic too. Make the headset and headphones good enough and they won't need another one. |
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gilesjuk
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| 40th Floor wrote: |
Pro-quality reverb is also desirable (and available there), but not the typical cheap echo with which you may be familiar. |
Why would anyone want reverb on a phone?
If you are serious about music sound quality then you don't go and apply global reverb over the entire signal.
Any one familiar with audio mixing knows that adding reverb to the bassline is seen as a bad thing, so adding reverb to the entire mix is lunacy.
You shouldn't even provide EQ, if the sound quality is so bad that you need EQ then you need better hardware or headphones  |
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40th Floor
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| gilesjuk wrote: | | Why would anyone want reverb on a phone? |
Anyone who has listened to iPlay or Zircon would know the answer. As good as reverb gets. No muss, no fuss, just much better sound than anything else you (most) would have ever heard. Everyone I've put headphones on listening to iPlay had a jaw drop in two seconds. Really, try it. Going back to anything else is like, well, haha.
Regarding "who needs EQ?" Well, it's a naive question. Who needs to correctly place loudspeakers? Move an LS into a corner and you've just boosted bass by 9 dB. Talk about EQ! The problem is, it is not discriminating and so sounds awfully boomy. Have a dead room? Treble is awful dull. How about a live room? Treble is awfully bright. Use a parametric EQ and you can smooth out the sound TO HOW YOU LIKE IT, not settling for whatever happens to come out. iPlay and Zircon each have parametric EQ, simple even a kid could figure it out. Again, it's really (shaking head) a naive thing to suggest (EQ is for those that don't know as much as I know... whatever), when the truth is, if you don't EQ you probably can't hear very well, or have some other problem. By the way, no two loudspeakers sound the same, so what you hear and what I hear will always be different, even if they are the exact same brand and model (room acoustics, for one, maybe you have a severe hearing loss and 4 kHz in one ear, or both, or whatever). There is no "right" way, so to suggest EQ is bad is terribly naive, worthy only of a sideways shaking head, and maybe ending with an eye roll.
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P.S. Operator, getting to edit ones post should not be time-delayed.
You cannot make another post so soon after your last; please try again in a short while.
Not even a mention of how long a short while is. It's not short.
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