Comparing Audio from 3 VoIP Recording Services, and Chris’s Goody Bag – PES 124

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Comparing Audio from 3 VoIP Recording Services, and Chris’s Goody Bag – PES 124

Hear and discern the audio quality differences between 3 popular podcast recording services – Zencastr, Squadcast and Ringr. Then let me know which service you think I used to record clip #1, #2 and #3. I play each of them twice and also give my evaluation of the 3 clips.

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10 Responses

  1. Clip one was definitely the worst….I had a hard time discerning too much difference between 2 and 3 even after the second listen, with your comments in mind. Good test! I have NO idea what service is what, and I’ve used 2 out of the 3.

    1. Ha! Try listening on your best monitors in a quiet place… And feel free to guess which was which!

  2. I haven’r Been able to use RINGR – I tried twice but couldn’t get the guest connected – embarrassing, so I don’t know what it’s like.

    I’ve used both Zencastr and Squadcast and have to say that if Zencastr is on a good day, then the quality is similar to Squadcast. However, I had too many recordings with artefacts and drifting on a Zencastr which pulls it down.

    The biggest difference, in my mind is the way they work – the whole invitation to download process. In this, I think Squadcast wins hands down. Similarly in Customer Service. Even with a power cut in the middle of recording, Squadcast retrieved most of my recording. They have my back.

    Next is the development. Squadcast again lead the field in the rate of development, plus lots of exciting features in V2 coming up.

    I’ll listen again on headphones, I only had earbuds, but if I had to pick at the moment, I would say that the second was worst, which left 1 and 3 being Squadcast or Zencastr.

    I am probably wrong, but it’s an interesting test. Perhaps recording a sine wave might show interesting results.

  3. Did you ever talk about the results? I must have missed it if you did. I have no good guesses on this one other than I agree with the observations mentioned on the podcast and in the comments.

    1. The answer is in the comments, and on this episode I discussed the audible differences. What else would you like to know, Chris?

        1. Sorry Chris – I was mistaken. Here is the order I placed them in:

          1. Squadcast (MP3) – Good, but the high end sounds a bit smeared, swooshy and distorted.

          2. Ringr (FLAC) – Very compressed, of course not full frequency, and horrible artifacts that make it sound like there’s someone or something in the background making noise.

          3. Zencastr (MP3) – Sounds good. I prefer this sound over the others.

    1. 1. Squadcast (MP3) – Good, but the high end sounds a bit smeared, swooshy and distorted.

      2. Ringr (FLAC) – Very compressed, of course not full frequency, and horrible artifacts that make it sound like there’s someone or something in the background making noise.

      3. Zencastr (MP3) – Sounds good. I prefer this sound over the others.

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