Phil Leigh;273912 Wrote: > Some CD's were mastered with pre-emphasis (vaguely similar to the RIAA > curve on vinyl) and something in the bitstream on those discs tells the > player that they need to apply de-emphasis to compensate. If the CD > player doesn't do this the CD will sound too "bright". > If the de-emphasis flag in the bitstream gets lost...or the DAC doesn't > respond to it...then the file will sound too bright. > This pre-emphasis is pretty rare...IMHO it was mostly early classical > discs... > I'm not sure anyone uses it anymore?
Thanks, I kind of thought that was what Tim was referring to but I'm still somewhat in the dark with the > For discs with emphasis, I use EAC to rip to WAV, use the FFT filter in > Cool Edit to apply the de-emphasis curve, then encode to FLAC. The most > recent disc I remember doing this way was Dan Fogelberg's "Captured > Angel", which was also mastered at very low level, espcially after the > high-cut of the de-emphasis curve, so I boosted the overall level > almost 10 dB in addition to the de-emphasis high-cut. part of it. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43910 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
