macmalon Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Did anyone noticed how the equilizer sometimes affects really badly the sound level?I firtst noticed it on a rage against the machine cd I ripped (but it also happens on others if not all the time). I recorded it in 64 and 48 and when I tried to play it on small pc speakers with max volume the sound of the music kind of faded and the voice was louder, as soon as the singer stops singing the music becomes louder agin. Those differences of volume ruin the music. But as soon as I deactivate the equalizer the sound becomes normal again and globally louder but without any bass improvment. I now really regret the time of the bass boost of my MZ 505 which worked just fine. I really think there is a big problem with the amplifier of this device and according to me it s the most annoying thing about this device. I still love my Himd though!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Welcome..Those are not very good bitrates. Have you tried 132kbps ATRAC3 or 256kbps ATRAC3plus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 plus you can make your own EQ that just intensifies the bass if you wished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benju Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Iv noticed this too with my nh1, using earphones. Above a certain volume level there are deffinitley descrepencies in the volume between loud and quiet parts in songs, i.e. quiet parts seem to be amplified whilst loud parts are restriced to a certian volume. And btw my music is encoded at hi sp 256kbs. Iv learnt to not use the equalizer and surprisingly i find the sound to be very decent and deffinitley not lacking bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Sounds like something is compressing the music, narrowing its dynamic range. I don't know what would do that except perhaps the ATRAC encoder. If it does do that, then ATRAC sucks even more than I once thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Did you record, or transfer from SonicStage?What has always annoyed me with Sony is that when you record, even via optical input, the recorder has automatic gain control (I think that's what its called) turned on by default. Automatic gain control is a form of dynamic compression.Personally, I record with the recording volume manually controlled, and always set to 21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xispe Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 in fact the equalizer of my nh700 does the same.It only happens at higher volumes and if i have some frequencies over boosted than others.If you listen things at lower levels, you won't be earing any of those compression effects. Only have the EQ on when listening in the phones. If you connect the player to a stereo or some computer speakers, just raise the volume till 25 or so and turn off the EQ.The EQ is nice... but the old school mega bass of my R70 rules better at higher volumes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I listen without EQ. imo, if you want better sound, get better headphones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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