Re:(idm)RA Quality improvement: ext. speakers

From Andrew Duke Cognition
Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 21:26

Hrvatski wrote:

> >    But is it just me, but does anyone else here find most RealAudio
> >unlistenable due to the crappy sound quality?
>
> dunno... if you've got half decent speakers on yr kit (what, no external
> speakers? come on...)

***This definitely helps:  instead of using the little computer speakers, plug
your computer's audio out line into your home stereo amp and just listen to
sound from the computer on your home stereo speakers--it's a big improvement.
Andrew

> it doesn't sound half bad (the JBL's we've got here
> sound superb for only $150... kicker and all...). 95% of us still have
> dial-up connections for 'leisure' use of the internet... No streaming
> 44.1K/16-bit AIFF/WAV just yet. New realudio specs (5.0) are getting there
> as far as reasonable facsimile of 'actual' quality goes. For a
> demonstration; http://www.tiac.net/users/sheket/audio.html . There's also
> the problem of server space (how many of you have more than 10 megs of web
> space?) We've fit around 435 minutes of audio into the same space only 50
> minutes of MP3 would take up (or 5 minutes of stereo CD-quality). Quantity
> over quality I 'spose... -Våt.
>
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