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Poor sound quality on X5 with RockBox
tvg:
Rockbox has a poor sound quality. Compared to OF, it has numerous clicks when: stopping, pausing, fading.
1) The click at stop is rather loud to hear it, OF has no click at stop.
2) Every step of volume change has an audible click, though not loud, but it HAS!
3) Fade in - is a total mess of clicks. As I understand, the fade in is realized as gradient volume change. Every step produces one click. So fade in becomes a set of clicks, though fading away.
4) The worst thing is clicks during the playback. I found a place in my silent song where there are audible light clicks. I rewinded and repeated this place again and again. The clicks were the same, but they slightly moved forward (in time). Some time I could repeat it, but after turning on and off I couldn't repeat them on previous place. It seems that the clicks are from HDD, but why are they absent on OF?
I'm telling exclusively about FLAC playing.
LinusN:
Wow! I have never heard anything like this on my X5, and you are the first to report it too.
nicolinux:
I also never heard something like that... I supposed you listened the same place of your FLAC files with the OF (in case it was a hardware problem) ?
tvg:
Of course the same FLAC, the same place.
Anyway, turn off the "fade in on pause" and listen to clicks on pause keypress - the stop is very inaccurate compared with OF.
Listen to clicks while changing volume: every step causes click (small). OF causes not.
(4) is the most doubtful, but the clicks were reproducible during small rewind and became not reproducible during big rewind. If I started to play the song again, the clicks became reproducible again.
This is difficult problem, I see...
But the clicks on stop, pause and volume change cannot be tolerated! Just listen, listen well - they are not a kind of CLICK, this is ...click...
LinusN:
OK, I hear it now. I can only hear it at extreme volume levels.
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