
" I downloaded yesterday the long awaited v1.0 of foobar and below are my findings.
For a long time I have preferred the older v0.8.3 to the 0.9.5.x and 0.9.6.x. Those newer 0.9.x version seems to have a flatter soundstage.
I experimented many other media players (mediamonkey, ...) and the only one that I found clearly superior to foobar 0.8.3 was cPlay. However, it is so user unfriendly that I rarely listen through it.
Well I am to have found out that the newest version of foobar is excellent sounding. Here are some of the notes I have taken :
The v1.0 removes grain in the upper frequencies in comparison with v0.8.3.
The v1.0 has the same soundstage depth as the v0.8.3 but has better imaging. Instruments seem to be more differentiated.
The amount of new details is outstanding. In very familiar classical recordings that I have listened hundreds of times, I heard new low level details (echoes, reverb, ...). But most interestingly, it didn't sound harsher but more natural."
Nebo
"I really don't think it is placebo. I did many hours of A/B listening with both versions (v1.0 and v0.8.3) since I first mentioned it, and the results are the same.
Even in very familiar recordings that I have listened to for hundreds of times in my system, I can hear new details and a removal of grain in the upper frequencies.
This is not a day and night difference but it is clearly audible on my reference system. I did a quick A/B trial on the Audio-gd FUN that I have just received and I wasn't able to tell reliably the difference (I am still not very familiar with the unit)."
Že by měl softwarový přehrávač vliv na zvuk se zdá jako pěkná kravina to je jasný, ale co když....Svoje postřehy si nechám pro sebe abych nebyl bit


