darrenyeats;401177 Wrote: > Guy, what he said. Whatever your personal tastes, you're listening to > different masters but doing what Archimago said will solve that. > > > Phil, you may be right about Audacity and 24-bit rendering (I haven't > checked). But if I zoom into ANY waveform, even horribly compressed > ones, all the way into individual samples I find it impossible to see > flat tops... That isn't my yardstick. > Darren Darren - you'd get "flat-tops" (not a phrase I use btw) if there were consecutive 0dB samples...representing clipping or hard-limiting at 0dB.
Compression as you know is technically different, since provided we stay away from consecutive 0dB samples we are only "compressed" and not hard-limited/clipped. I'm still trying to get my head around the way that Audacity renders 24-bit files (of any sample rate) as they all look very odd to me... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60665 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
