Really is there any way I can determine quality of a vowel/consonant without praat?
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Sure, people used to do it in the olden days all the time. What's required is a course of training in auditory phonetics, where you are given examples of particular sounds like [ɑ] versus [a], performed by an expert, and you learn to distinguish between different sound types. The IPA (the organization) has a page with recorded expert performances. In case you mean "phonation type", they do also include examples of breathy and creaky voice. However, you can only get a very rough categorization ("is breathy" vs "is modal"), and you can't get an acoustic measurement without a Praat-like program or similar specialized hardware such as a spectrograph that detects waveform properties.
