For regular listening I encode my CD collection in WMA lossless. It might not be perfectly transparant to the origenal disk, but its really close.
In Media player things usually sound ok. For fun I slammed the 31 hz bar in Media player to test a pair of monitors I built, and then left it on by mistake (phone rang), and left the studio for a week.
When i came back, everything sounded distorted. bad modulation without actually reproducing low end (my system is flat down to like 18 hz. ). Clearly the windows eq caused it. obviously, I turned it off, but... now I feel like windows or media player has poor headroom. My stereo converters are Lynx II.
Is there a better quality audio system for playing back wma files or am I stuck with a low headroom junkpile called windows? Or was it just the eq itself heaping node-chaos upon phase disaster?
dont use wma then. its the worst format possible. wav's the best
dont use wma then. its the worst format possible. wav's the best, then comes mp3.