Comments on: Turn off the iTunes Sound Enhancer.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:57:45 +0000

So… the sound enhancer makes the left and right “ends” of the music more pronounced than the “middle” part? I actually think that’s a good feature to have, especially for progressive metal bands like Dream Theater, who love playing with the extreme “ends” of sound. :P

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:41:57 +0000

thank you for this post. I was wondering why itunes was turning my recordings into poorly EQ’d high school music appreciation skecthes.

By: David Vanderschel

David Vanderschel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:14:47 +0000

In iTunes version 9, it is no longer the default.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:58:49 +0000

I think quite a lot of the posters above have missed the point of iTunes. It is a mass-consumer media purchasing and playing application. It is not an audiophile product. As a result, the vast majority of people who use it will play their music on commodity hardware, and I imagine that the sound enhancer is to make popular music sound better on iPod docks or on their laptop sound card. If you really care about 100% faithful music reproduction (are you using lossless compression?) it is surely best to buy an expensive CD player. It’s not apple that have the problem to be fair, iTunes is wildly popular. But expecting it to perform like an audiophile product is like using an adjustable spanner to put up picture hooks. You’ll look foolish, and the end result won’t satisfy…

By: jsd

jsd — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:48:23 +0000

actually “off” is accomplished by unchecking the box on the left

By: skodos

skodos — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:35:04 +0000

It only affects playback, not importing

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:44:41 +0000

To VARNSEN, this is not an attitude problem. If someone uses iTunes to import a thousand songs from 400 CDs before noticing this “on by default” setting, it can be quite a time waster. No one wants to delete and re-import 1,000 songs. Even worse would be to burn a dozen CDs before noticing it.

Fortunately, my iTunes has never had the Sound Enhancer on by default. I hope everyone knows “off” is the center position, not the far left.

By: roger

roger — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:14:02 +0000

I’ve only recently begun using itunes for listening to music. I set up a bit of a system, loaded some CDs, and figured the pain in my ears would go away if I got my speakers sounding right. Went looking for a way to turn off the annoying “cross fade”. I found it, along with the “sound enhancer”. I turned them both off. My ears don’t hurt anymore.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:47:49 +0000

“clearly not designed for a techno musician, since 75% of all the music on my computer is my own stuff, loops, tracks, single shot samples, whatever…”

Well, no, it’s not designed for any kind of audio production work. Why on earth would you load loops or samples into iTunes? It’s a music jukebox FFS. I do pro audio work, but I use iTunes to organise my music library and nothing more. It’s actually not a bad piece of software if you use it for what it’s designed for.

That said, this “sound enhancer” thing is totally retarded. I have no idea why it’s included, or what possible benefit it could serve.

By: Varnsen

Varnsen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:25:49 +0000

Wow, you guys all have severe attitude problems. Holier than thou. Just turn the damn setting off and quit bitching.