I apologise to all who I have offended. Maybe I over-reacted. Didn’t like being told not to bother with "“silly cables” and a couple of other comments riled me. My bad, I shouldn’t have reacted.
Yeah, the test is quick enough, I was just waiting for the adaptors so I can connect my silly cables. The only cable I had to hand was rubbish, so I have only really been able to verify speed differences, not distortions (the cable adds so much distortion and hum itself).
Oh - if anyone could kindly point me to where you change the pitch on the player (in Rockbox), I would be humbly grateful.
UPDATE
Anyway, I have all my cables in order now, and performed the test - or at least I tried to. Unfortunately this was what I got:
“Cannot finish tests. \nAUDIO ERROR: Cannot detect test signal in the recorded waveform. Probably the input level is too low. Try to check I/O levels. No hardware error occured.”
When I did the pre-test, it was telling me the signal was about 18dB too low and suggested to try to increase the levels on the mixer. Unfortunately, I’m running everything at absolute max level (on my soundcard’s GUI and on the Sansa). It’s just that even at max level, the Sansa is very quiet (a bit louder using Rockbox but still very quiet).
I hasten to add, I have disabled any European-regulated volume limitations - and it is still very loud through headphones, but is simply not up to line level.
Good news is, I have a dock on order, which will enable me to get a line level from the player (not via the headphone output). This should enable me to complete the test.
Other good news is, I agree with those who mentioned about the possibility of placebo - I am starting to think this may be the case - none of us is immune to that. It will be good to run the test anyway, but I will not hesitate to admit if it has all been “in my head”!!!
However, please let us wait for the test results. I should have my dock in a few days - or someone else could run the test if they want.
Message Edited by FLACtastic on 05-30-2010 06:47 PM
Message Edited by FLACtastic on 05-30-2010 08:23 PM