Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?

On 4/8/24 03:09, Farley Flud wrote:

On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 20:30:02 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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What _app_ do you use for best experience of mp3 music? As I said, on my
machine the best sound I think is that of Celluloid. If you have an app
that works better than Celluloid, or a setting that results better
sound, I'm interested to know about, cause listening to music for me is
an important part of my life.
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  From a technical point of view, the best mp3 player is mpg123:
 http://mpg123.org/
 Madplay is a close second:
 http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
 These are both command-line programs.
 But, on GNU/Linux, any mp3 player will do a good job because all/most
of them use the same libraries such as from libmad or libmpg123.
 Regarding audio settings, alsamixer gives access to all soundcard
parameters.  There are other mixers but I don't know their names.
Alsamixer does everything.  Why use anything else?
 

How can one measure the quality of sound in an audio player? Doing it by ear, I'd say Celluloid is the best that I have. But is there a quantitative way to check the quality? If there is, it could cut a lot of bullshit.
With Celluloid, for instance, I can hear the very last two notes played in Chopin's op 64 #2 clear and mint. Even in low volume. Can you do that with your player if it's that good? My version of that work is the one played and published by Arthur Rubinstein.
Find the work. Download it. Play it in low volume. And maybe we can compare the quality of sound produced by Celluloid and whatever it is that you use, provided identical set of speakers, and identical sound cards and identical computers and identical auditory cortex, and, identical set of background noise. Hahhhahhahh :-)
Or, explain a clear description of how quality of sound can be quantitatively compared.