Pat, I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It sounds like your talking about gain expansion where the valleys of the waveform are maintained, and only the peaks are raised. Gain normalization in my software does not destroy dynamic range within a cut, it simply looks for the loudest passage and makes that peak the full scale output of the DAC counts and re-calculates by ratio proportions all of the other values required to maintain a linear file. This produces no compression or expansion. But it can change the relative dynamic range from one cut to another on an album if each cut is *individually* normalized. That being the case, I process albums as single large file, then chop it into pieces as the final step for burning CDs.
Of course, I don't need to burn CD's now that I own an SB. Best, eCo -- eCo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eCo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
