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Anarchy

Jan 19 2007, 03:30

I have started using the Music Player Daemon, which is basically a service that runs on my desktop and plays music when a client connects to it. I like it, since it allows me to set the music that is playing on my desktop speakers from my laptop. The only minor flaw I have found to it is that it includes no equalizer. And according to their website, they have no plan to add one anytime soon. From their website:

QUOTE

No, there's no equalizer for MPD, nor are there plans for such a beast. Any kind of software that fiddles with frequencies like this can also be concidered distortion, and it is concidered a much better thing to do this in hardware. Cheap amplifiers/equalizers can be found at a pawn shop for about $20 bucks. Alternatively, you may be able to find a jack output plug-in to do what you want.

So my question is the following. Is that statement true? I searched on hydrogenaudio forum, and I have found this topic which seems remotely related. Not that I think I could hear the difference between a good and a bad equalizer, mind you, but if an hardware one is as cheap as the MPD wiki proclaims, I might just buy one anyways.

Axon

Jan 19 2007, 03:32

It's bollocks. Any professional EQ unit that isn't analog, is doing the exact same thing as doing the EQ on your computer in software. And a $20 eq is probably not going to be nearly as good as doing it digitally.

Anarchy

Jan 19 2007, 19:28

QUOTE (Axon @ Jan 18 2007, 21:32)

Thank you for your reply.

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