mswlogo;542880 Wrote: > I agree with most of your points. Your point here is all I was saying > when folks jumped all over it because they ran out of ideas in > explaining why ditgital attenution doesn't cost anything. > > Your right it may be one track in an album. Or a few. It's not worth > losing skeep over. If I see a whole album with say 3dB or more > headroom. I consider that being lazy. Than clipping a few inaudible > peaks because they didn't cut it that close by accident. > > Re: Topic of attenuation. if you're happy with 14bits at 80 volume. All > the power to ya. That test that was posted says it all. Some > ears/systems may not notice it but others will.
I think we are close (ish) to agreeing. (24-bit) Digital Attenuation costs SNR (nothing else). Can you hear 10-20dB of it? Depends on several things but predominantly it depends on the average energy level of the track - if it is a very quiet track you MIGHT hear the increased noise floor relative to the track content. On a track with 0dB peaks and an average level > -40dB... I can't. Fortunately that's 99.9% of my collection - I'm still looking for ones that might meet these criteria. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - 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 Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
