Re: [Bluez-devel] Motorola HT820 audio fidelity

[Brad Midgley <bmidgley@xmission.com>]

Fredrik

> I just got a pair of Motorola HT820 bluetooth headphones, which support
> A2DP and work with a2play. However, the audio fidelity could definitely
> be a lot better. I'm no audiophile, but it sounds to me as though the
> higher frequency bands ("higher" as in, I'd guestimate, ~10 kHz and
> above) are seriously distorted (I can't put a better word on it than
> that they are completely transformed into "chirping"). All the lower
> bands are completely unaffected as far as I can hear, though.

I noticed some quality loss at high frequencies, such as high notes on a
violin, possibly when using fixed point to build libsbc. It is subtle.
On the other hand, if you hear an unexpected "pop" using fixed point,
it's definitely an overflow error in the encoder. There's still a
problem in there I didn't hunt down.

Steven Singer suggested we to track the error "K" after an
encode-decode. K is derived from the root-mean-square error. We could
use this to rule out a misbehaving codec.

It doesn't help that we're typically decoding mp3 and reencoding in sbc.
Loss is really compounded. Try to test with something in a lossless
format or with a high-quality first-generation mp3 or ogg.

Brad


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