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    Using itunes setting to improve playback

    Interesting snippet from an article

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/te...=1&oref=slogin

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    Then Mr. Cooder noticed something else: When he burned a copy of the album using Apple’s iTunes software, it sounded fine. He didn’t know why until one of his younger engineers told him that the default settings on iTunes apply a “sound enhancer.” (It’s in the preferences menu, under “playback.”) Usually, that feature sweetens the sound of digital music files, but Mr. Cooder so liked its effect on his studio recordings that he used it to master — that is, make the final sound mixes — his album. “We didn’t do anything else to it,” he said.
    Maybe everyone should try it and report back?

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    Quote Originally Posted by noddin0ff
    oops sorry, that's the one.

    Seems ironic that someone like Ry Cooder with an ear for sound quality resorted to using the itunes software which primarily uses compression software.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike

    Seems ironic that someone like Ry Cooder with an ear for sound quality resorted to using the itunes software which primarily uses compression software.
    i was thinking the same thing!

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