tom permutt wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > >>Normalizing is not an audiophile thing to do. >>Nor is it good recording engineering practice. > > To be clear, I think Pat is perfectly correct with respect to best > practice.
Thanks. I did say it quickly becomes theology and not engineering > My point is just that second-best practice in this case may > be not at all terrible. Yes, if you waste a little of the top end of > the range of sample values when recording, and then multiply everything > by a constant to get it back, you are multiplying various kinds of noise > at the low end. You don't want to add any noise you can help. I'm just > saying, the vinyl record, played through modest equipment, already has > enough noise in it that I, anyway, am not going to notice these > additional effects. If you don't notice, you need to spend more money on your vinyl playback equipment, preamps, cables, etc. so you can be called a true audiophile. It is interesting to note that the majority of audiophiles are men over 30 and most are over 40. Too much rock-n-roll is likely to have had more impact on the ears and hearing than a little normalization. -- Pat Farrell PRC recording studio http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
