Thread: Lack of audio quality on the N900 and useless overhead
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2010-01-07 , 15:39
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Originally Posted by redi View Post
Plugging in the headphones definately does not bypass the limiter -effect. I am unsure what you mean by EQ preventing speaker damage, since as far as I understand, equalizing would not do much to prevent that (unless it's a programmed parametric EQ doing the limiting only at required peaking values and boosting overall volume to compensate, instead of a regular compressor/limiter -effect).
Call it what you like, that's what it's supposed to be doing without headphones plugged in: filter out or otherwise limit certain frequencies that would damage the speaker. I don't know the details but e.g. Arnim/Pupkin has investigated this quite a lot and was the one i heard describing it.

There does seem to be a lot of PA overhead in general and it would be good to have some answers and options. Coming from a crappier phone music player, N900 audio sounds great to me, but i'm sure it could be better.
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