Test your soundcard for clipping, with this sample Options

[Jan S.]

For everybody fighting with occasional clipping (or perfectionists wanting to test everything) you should try the attached sample, udial.

Testing:

• play the sample in your favourite player (decoded or not, having disabled all DSPs and EQs that can interfere)
  
• if the output sounds weird at any time you should:
  • lower the output vol. in your soundcard config (should be the speaker icon in your system tray).
  • For some soundcards 48kHz is better (audigy 2 etc.).
  • lower the vol. till the sample doesn't sound weird at any time.

The output will sound really weird if your settings clip.
Your output can occasional clip without you knowing/hearing it. But for us perfectionists this will theoretically give a better quality output.

ATTENTION: Play this sample at a low volume anytime, even if you hear nothing special! It can be very harmful to equipment and/or your ears.
It's strongly recommended to use some very cheap (PC) speakers if you want to test this,
otherwise you might really ruin your tweeters (it has happened several times already).

Attached File(s)

 udial.zip ( 217.55K ) Number of downloads: 19617

 

[Mac]

Ugh, you should put a warning when you post samples that sound horrible, listening to that loud makes me want to barf

Heh, my vile AC'97 chip plays it fine all the way up to winamp 100% & sound properties 100%. No silly resampling options or 256 bit precision

I'd love to know what it sounds like when it's "wrong"... cuz that sounds more than a little unpleasant to me