Sorta hidden setting that make iTunes sound better
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plazmaplanna
Active Member
i already knew about the uninstall button =P jk....
Have you ever seen the movie? One of the most depressing movies I have ever seen. It was made in 1970 mostly in Sweden
MacPhantom
Guest
Don't see it that black-white all the time. They also did something excellent: the "Sound Check" function. If enabled, loudness war-infested soundtracks will have to drop their pants and people begin to hear how bad these recordings are.
And yes, iTunes for Mac OS X is awesome. Don't have that much experience with the Windows version though.
Isn't the sound check a volume leveler, I'll give it a try but I am not a fan of such controls because they tend to get in the way of the dynamics in orchestrated music.
kirkendoll
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) :thmbsp:
TerryO
Super Member
It's a story that needed to be told, but I can't imagine a way to make it enjoyable. Thinking about it, I don't believe I ever saw the whole movie, I seem to remember that I caught part of it on TV some years ago. I "can" say that the book was certainly depressing and an apt preparation for his "Gulag."
Best Regards,
TerryO
blackfly
Fidelius Claritus
I myself will look into this, but I have a year old iMac and I run iTunes with Amarra with superb results. I suspect that a Mac product most likely works best on a Mac (duh...). I will say that the sound of iTunes compared to Amarra is night and day. Amarra is much better, and I am sure the many other variants are good too.
MacPhantom
Guest
This definitely does not. The sound check does indeed level out the tracks, but no dynamics are influenced. It's just that classical tracks might get attenuated a little bit due to their short but high amplitude peaks. The solution against this is simple: turn up the volume.
trhee
ㅇtㅈyㅅr
It's funny you mention Amarra. I spent a few weeks exhaustively testing out Amarra, Pure Music, Audirvana Plus and few others against each other.
To be blunt, anyone who's using a Mac with iTunes should be required to use one of the above apps as the difference, like you said is night and day.
I personally went with Audirvana Plus, because to me, it was the best sounding and had the best user interface. To be overly simple in description and a bit stereotypical, Amarra sounded like a great "analog" setup while Pure Music sounded like a great "digital" setup and Audirvana Plus was kind of the best of both worlds.
To be blunt, anyone who's using a Mac with iTunes should be required to use one of the above apps as the difference, like you said is night and day.
I personally went with Audirvana Plus, because to me, it was the best sounding and had the best user interface. To be overly simple in description and a bit stereotypical, Amarra sounded like a great "analog" setup while Pure Music sounded like a great "digital" setup and Audirvana Plus was kind of the best of both worlds.
cratz2
Addicted Member
I have a USB dongle DAC/sound card that has something similar and is also enabled by default. Basically a non-variable loudness control that is, by my guess, about +10dB on the bass end and about +6dB on the treble end.
When I first hooked it up, I had the volume on my receiver pretty low so it didn't sound good or bad but when I turned the volume up towards a reasonable level... Wow! It sounded like my surrounds had both torn. Pretty awful.
When I first hooked it up, I had the volume on my receiver pretty low so it didn't sound good or bad but when I turned the volume up towards a reasonable level... Wow! It sounded like my surrounds had both torn. Pretty awful.