The wooden barrel effect depends on the shortest one among the sound source, headphones, and player.

1. Sound sources

Sound sources, that is, timbre resources, are generally divided into two categories. The first group is hardware sound sources, the most common presentation method is electronic instruments. The internal hardware has a huge sound library support and generally has the most outstanding sound samples on the market. The second group is software sound sources, which must be installed on the computer. Running the MIDI interface on the system requires the support of the host software. The common format is VST, which is loaded and used by the host. The quality of the sound is purely determined by the developer's sampling level. A fair evaluation, excellent sound sources can achieve the effect of being fake and real.

Second, HiFi headphones

Hi-Fi is the abbreviation of English High-Fidelity, literally translated as "high fidelity". Its definition is: a playback sound that is highly similar to the original sound. . So what kind of audio equipment's playback sound is Hi-Fi? So far, it is still difficult to make a definite conclusion. Professionals in the audio industry use various instruments and various means to detect various indicators to determine the Hi-Fi level of the equipment, while audio enthusiasts often use their own ears to judge whether the equipment reaches the Hi-Fi level in their minds. . To judge the high-fidelity level of the reproduced sound, not only high-performance equipment and software are required, but also a good listening environment.

3. Player

1. The music player is the visual operation interface of the audio decoder. Its essence is a decoder for various audio encoding formats. For example, ape format calls Monkey'sAudio decoder, flac format calls flac decoder, and mp3 calls lame decoder.

2. Most music players support files in multiple music formats. This is because these players package different audio decoders and create a unified playback interface so that users can Play and listen to all kinds of music conveniently. Because the music player only packages the audio decoder, and the decoding method of the same audio is fixed, in theory, the sound quality of all players should be exactly the same, and there is no music player with the best sound quality.

3. Some music players will add DSP plug-ins based on the decoder to convert and distort the original music to cater to people's preferences (such as enhancing bass or filtering details), just to name it. It is said that optimizing the sound quality to obtain the natural sound actually destroys the original music. Although it can make some music sound better, it also causes the sound quality of other music to be greatly reduced.