Quick question (Bass)

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+20db? Thats not sane... But every one to his on taste.

Why don't you lower all highs and mids and pump the volume?

[bk]

Maybe you destroyed the drivers in your headphones with such amplified low end. Or your eardrums.

If you really care, connect the ipod to the line input on your soundcard and record some sample audio. Then you can load it into a sound editor and see if the bass is as low as you think it is.

[soap]

Let us bring the topic of discussion back to Rockbox.

[Jamalarm]

Your headphones may just have very poor bass.

Nah, they have absolutely fantastic bass. That's one of the main reasons i bought them.

Edit:

Yeah, sorry. This is rapidly veering into irrelevance. I'll stop complaining here and move to an ipod specific complaining portal. Thanks everyone!

[PHK Brasil]

The settings i'm using at the moment are:

Bass: +9

This adjust not works on iPods. Just works as a "second" volume, increasing volume without changing bass response.

I don't know, but if this adjusts works on iRiver and you're using the same settings, you got minus 9dB of bass on your iPod, comparing to iRiver.

Maybe is what happening.




[Off Topic]

iPod hardware has horrible bass response on sub 32 ohm loads.  What is the impedance of your headphones?

Soap, I knew that this was a problem on 3rd gen iPods. This remains on 5gen iPods, with the Wolfson audio chips?

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[saratoga]

Its on all ipods, but is worse on the older ones.

[PHK Brasil]

Its on all ipods, but is worse on the older ones.

Could you send me a link to this article, please? I just know the dutch Stereoplay Magazine one, but is a iPod 3rd generation test.

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[saratoga]

I did these tests myself using a crappy onboard sound card.  The noise level figures are worthless (sound card had strong hiss), but the frequency response graphs should be accurate.

http://www.duke.edu/~mgg6/rmaa/Ipod3G.htm
http://www.duke.edu/~mgg6/rmaa/IpodNano1G.htm
http://www.duke.edu/~mgg6/rmaa/Ipod5G.htm

Had a Nano 2G and a Zen Vision:M handy, but ran out of time to test them.

[PHK Brasil]

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Thanks a lot, saratoga.

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[kamisamanou]

I have a 60gb iPod that's been Rockboxed and the bass on it is phenomenally powerful. I have a pair of Grado Labs SR60's and the original iPod earbuds and the bass comes through great on both.