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Midi Quality on K700i |
DarkWolfX
Joined: Apr 06, 2004
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From: Mexico
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So, technically, the best SE phone to reproduce MIDI´s are the T and Z series?
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MINDSCRIBE
Joined: Jun 26, 2004
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The T & Z series phones use the same audio electronics,and i have dismantled both T610 & Z600. These phones are made to a very high quality and i think SE must have made a loss manufacturing these handsets! SE appear to be a lower cost manufacturing process in their latest handsets(clips instead of screws in K700),this may apply to the audio electronics,but i will have to dismantle my K700 to find out!
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teslaguy
Joined: Aug 11, 2004
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From: Cyprus
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Comparing a midi between T610/K700:
-Lower frequencies (bass) are non existent on the T610
-Higher pitched instruments sound better on the T610.
-I sent a warcraft II midi to the phone... It apparently sounds closer to the real thing on the K700 than the T610. (no there's no way my sound card doesn't sound correct it's a SBA2P  )
Ah and btw midi quality has nothing to do with speaker quality, as long as the speaker allows the correct playback of the frequencies requested to be played. (so the k700 and t610 might have the same midi to sound device)
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MINDSCRIBE
Joined: Jun 26, 2004
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The T610 speaker is too small to reproduce bass notes properly.Bass reproduction is related to speaker size.
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DarkWolfX
Joined: Apr 06, 2004
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So why if theories are correct, except dismantling the K700 to take a look, why does every1 says on T and Z series sound better than the K series?
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jmbillings
Joined: Sep 28, 2002
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Basically the midi chip in the T610 had a much better set of instruments availabe. I'm guessing they were wavetable ones (i.e. based on samples of real instruments) rather than the "generated" instruments in most other phones (k700i included). An example is the "old phone" ringtone in the T610. It sounds good because its probably a sample of a real old ringing bell. Same with the drums/pianos/whatever. Copy this to a K700 and it won't sound anywhere near as good as the K700 midi chip has to synthesize its own ringing bell noise.
I had a thunderbirds midi on my pc that sounded fantastic on the T610, and a Mission impossible one too. On the K700 they are much more average. Shame they changed it, must have been a cost thing. |
Quongo
Joined: Jul 29, 2004
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Off! Tak sa tu pekne opatrujte! :-)
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manilabynight
Joined: Aug 16, 2004
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Well, you could use a utility on your PC like dBpowerAMP Music Converter to make your mp3's smaller in size. Like changing the bitrate, encoding quality. Of course you'll have to experiment a bit. Of course the smaller the size the lesser the quality.
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DarkWolfX
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Or convert it to AAC?
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teslaguy
Joined: Aug 11, 2004
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From: Cyprus
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Eh? are we talking about the same thing here ?
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Posted: 2004-08-27 20:34
