From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Apr 24 18:09:37 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D2DFADF8B for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:09:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from sonic307-7.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (sonic307-7.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [87.248.110.32]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72D7E683AC for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:09:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) X-YMail-OSG: kwRTTDYVM1n3V6gqBNjg2nVO1fOyMzVxvJrQ3ckBzG_rSfb5ugIs8Np0sC7xhw0 b_hzeMtq4O65J5bK.oQZ8dTdnvEZJOwZK49zJCvNmMJPFKNp.RiW80gv4vDXRb2ace7jq0L7TdeF jHKEknazsgEDecOn1dyZSztjOBcdCsDGe8r_vloykUiozaFFpW5njpqVN7XdYUimBWxScPWvc.aN pYwBNyr2QHgAKiTluhnzBt8eATDaJbOH38TZVsXHe5O7XfCylgyE0BzDaxNig3CECnE.7f8gYGE2 MjPWnegjPlKaUEBAvtgLgIXMhrVBFAc5twdBI8Vx0QxOtb9ddBIYEdVSqiwwRH3eG5V4D7QhbTQF h7dCpvDuIYedlCpn_L6J4bVOzmJPUiVbwoAM1mAtaApzAMMjNsXAJXoXmXX1Zj.DMtImH1y9N5fx FzU1RK.7hlsAcBagugxWhjxJd_T6wK0wyaDKW0dL18jjnM6aettecJv3LjcPBJrtU4q1gPtIOoe1 GdVB74GQ2jobOe3Hz1tV2nK6P3q1l_NkO67ljsujHZbG6USAF0Gcbydf61zXAi736e99Kr0ixVcC veXWO2tu4wbXMvaQtRq5D6zkhl7eMDg-- Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic307.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:09:29 +0000 Received: from x4e321546.dyn.telefonica.de (EHLO archlinux) ([78.50.21.70]) by smtp413.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID d6da168d35512099539c3818bce2974d for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:09:24 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audiophile sound on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20180424200924.12c648bf@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20180424113308.52f35f93@WorkMachine> References: <20180423224242.7299f430@WorkMachine> <20180424113308.52f35f93@WorkMachine> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0git136 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:09:37 -0000 On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:33:08 +0200, AikiZen wrote: >It's a laptop, no possible to change sound card... Most likely any elCheapo prosumer USB class compliant audio device provides far better audio quality, than any onboard audio device. This is a prosumer class compliant audio device: https://www.thomann.de/de/focusrite_scarlett_2i2_2nd_gen.htm It much likely sounds thousand times better, than an onbaord device. This is a professional class compliant USB audio device: https://www.thomann.de/de/rme_babyface_pro.htm It for sure does sound thousand times better than a prosumer audio device. I don't know your definition of "audiophile", but if you want professional sound you need to use a professional device, that apart from the converters also provides a far better analog domain. Btw. an "audio CD" already provides not that good audio quality. What you need for high end audio quality are 48 KHz, btw. anything higher than 48 KHz gains you nothing, to the contrary, not matching pass filters could make the sound less good and at very high sample rates, the energy does increase, this means the noise floor does increase.