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Michal S.
Inspiring
June 16, 2018
Question

sound output from Audition low quality

  • June 16, 2018
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I'm working in Audition for years, but never had this before...

The sound quality when I play something in Audition is very low... as if it was super low bitrate..

Any tips where the problem could be ?

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      Williewin
      Participant
      September 4, 2020

      This post is probably way to late to fix your problem, but I think I just figured out the likely solution.  I was just having the same problem, of having really bad playback audio.  I first recorded (via stereo mix) some content and noticed the playback was terrible.  I thought that it was just a bad recording.  But then I dropped a known-good MP3 into Audition and it also sounded terrible.  I eventually found the setting under:  Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware.  At the bottom of the window find Sample Rate and increase it.  For some reason, my (newly installed) Audition had defaulted the setting to 6000 Hz.  I bumped it up to 48000 Hz and my playback is back to normal.  

       

      CS5.5 Adobe Audition

      ryclark
      ryclark
      Participating Frequently
      June 16, 2018

      We need much more information about your computer and what soundcard you are using. Are these recordings that you have made with Audition or audio files that you are importing? What audio format are they saved as?

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        Michal S.Author
        Inspiring
        June 17, 2018

        hm, so apparently Audition doesn't like the Apple Airpods.. tried different headphones now and all seems to be working fine again.

          SteveG_AudioMasters_
          Community Expert
          SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
          Community Expert
          June 17, 2018

          https://forums.adobe.com/people/Michal+S.  wrote

          hm, so apparently Audition doesn't like the Apple Airpods.. tried different headphones now and all seems to be working fine again.

          In the back of my mind, I recall somebody else mentioning this in the past as well. I have no idea why this would happen though - you'd have to ask Apple, probably.

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