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Pennypacker n00b
Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 6
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: Oss4 seems allright! |
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Just wanted to express my happiness with oss4.
I tried installing it in the past, i could not get it to work then. (forgot what went wrong)
I gave it another try today..It all installed ok, via the overlay. Very good sound quality!
Until today, i had to switch to windows for best hifi sound. This is no longer the case.
Vlc, mplayer2, ffmpeg, audacious all working fine.
Using asus-ST card with sennh. hd600.
I guess there are still some compatibility-issues with some programs, but these don't seem to affect me much. |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Pennypacker wrote: | i had to switch to windows for best hifi sound |
Since the HD600 are headphones, did you try bs2b while in ALSA? _________________ Improve your font rendering and ALSA sound |
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Pennypacker n00b
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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No, i did not try bsb2 with alsa, so i can't really say anything about it. I just read about it, the theory behind it seems plausible.
My experience however is, (& i have a lot of hours listening to headphones with different sound-cards) that no plug-in/effect etc. sounds good to me. Just stereo, with a little eq in windows (i find the bass too heavy/dominant without eq in windows with this op-amp/card/phone). With the hd595 the flat eq mode is just right for me.
No cross-feed, crystalizer, cms3d (on xfi, an awful effect for music, not games), Dolby headphone etc. I hate it all.
And it is not my goal to talk bad about alsa. I used it until now (& i will probably use it again if when "upgrading", oss4
doesn't seem to work again for some reason).
Alsa has always worked without trouble.
But: comparing to windows & oss4 it sounded: more flat, more dry, just more "dead". |
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Pennypacker ...
I also have Sennheiser HD600 and generally don't like any kind of filtering, however I was impressed with bs2b, its somewhat of a subtle experience, and I now find stereo in headphones "distracting" (at least thats the only description I can come up with).
best ... khay |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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In the OSS4 configuration, did you specify headphones?
Maybe OSS4 automatically applies something bs2b-like? |
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Pennypacker n00b
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, maybe there is something like bs2b already included in the windows or oss4 drivers..
I just selected "headphone" in ossxmix "CMedia CMI8788" x-panel. There was no need for much configuration-file editing.
Looking at /usr/lib64/oss/etc/devices.list, i see that all xonar cards, except the ST, have an entry in there.
Guess i'm using the "stock" cmi8788 driver, which works fine.
Choosing between the 3 headphone-gain settings is not (yet?) possible, but i don't mind this.
The "field of sound" is a little different from windows..there seems to be a bit more bass, but not in a fatiguing way.
Still i would like to be able to turn the bass lower.. |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a "normal speakers" output selection, that you can test? If it sounds "more dead" through headphones, then we have the answer |
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aCOSwt Bodhisattva
Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 2537 Location: Hilbert space
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Is OSS4 MIDI capable ?
I left FreeBSD for my desktop a couple of years ago because FreeBSD was OSSonly and OSS was not MIDI capable. _________________
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franzf Advocate
Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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aCOSwt wrote: | Is OSS4 MIDI capable ?
I left FreeBSD for my desktop a couple of years ago because FreeBSD was OSSonly and OSS was not MIDI capable. |
timidity did not work? |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Multimedia to Unsupported Software. I was reminded by one of the developers that Oss4 is not yet in the official tree, so this thread fits better here.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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aCOSwt Bodhisattva
Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 2537 Location: Hilbert space
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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franzf wrote: | aCOSwt wrote: | Is OSS4 MIDI capable ?
I left FreeBSD for my desktop a couple of years ago because FreeBSD was OSSonly and OSS was not MIDI capable. |
timidity did not work? |
Oh yes it does, well I mean it can play a midi file but it just cannot honestly manage the MIDI port of your hardware device => The plugging of a keyboard or any MIDI aware external instrument is simply impossible. In some rare cases you can but must face so huge latencies that you'll just give up. _________________
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disi Veteran
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tclover Guru
Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Posts: 516
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: old ebuilds? |
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I have newer ebuild in my overlay plus a live one (a failure to clone the mercurial repo is not an exception, syncing to it is already too much hassle). Anyway, 4.2.2006 is available. _________________ home/:mkinitramfs-ll/:supervision/:e-gtk-theme/:overlay/ |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Another way to improve the ALSA output seems to be to compile mpg123 with --enable-int-quality, as done in Arch. I notice that Gentoo doesn't have this option - someone wanna file a bug? (I'm not a Gentoo user.)
mpg123 is used by both mplayer and audacious, which the OP mentions. |
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Dorsai! Apprentice
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 285 Location: Bavaria
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Pennypacker n00b
Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 6
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: a little addendum |
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I just upgraded to kernel 3.5 & audacious 3.3. (with, as before, oss-devel-9999)
Could i be imagining things?..but my opinion is, that music quality has improved again.
Quality is superb now, i think. (most stereo headphone listening).
Very good, Thank you devs! -) |
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