mswlogo;543588 Wrote: > I never agreed 4 bits were free. In that test Volume 20 is a 4bit shift. > If 4bits didn't lose detail you'd still have 96dB of dynamic range. But > you get 76 dB. They attenuated 4bits and lost 4bits. I must have said > that 6 times now. > > Replay Gain is a slightly different deal and I'm rethinking using it > myself in a unique way. If you have CD's that are way over compressed > they are junk anyway and probably have no low level detail. So you > can't make them much worse. Boosting them is fine in fact is good > because if a CD has too much headroom it's the same argument that it's > better to bring them up to full scale. As long as you don't clip them > (significantly). However Replay Gain by default uses RMS Volume to > decide not Peak Data. So you need to be careful it does not cause > significant clipping. Minor occasional clipping is not a big deal. > > I assume your premium albums have little or no replay gain. So it's up > to you if want to use it. I personally won't ever attenuate with replay > gain. But I might consider boosting with it. But that presents some > other complex problems in Meridian land I'm not going into here. We > have thread on that topic actually on Meridian Forum. Just one quick > comment any time you change volume digitally you need to redither and > I'm curious if that happens and who does it. Plugin or SqueezeBox. > > I removed a 6dB digital attenuation from my system and I can hear the > difference. I can't hear Meridian upsampling. I can't hear Merdian > apodizing. I can't hear the difference between m...@320kps and flac. But > I can hear the loss 6dB digitally does. > > You can research Meridian spekaers on your own if you want. But > effectively they are DAC, Preamp, and ANALOG amps all in one box. It's > exactly the same as a conventional setup it's just they put it all in > one box. They actually have 4 DAC channels and 4 amps in the box. > Because they do crossover in digital domain. This allows amps to run > 100% efficient compared to passive crossovers and avoid phase problems > passive crossovers have.
Replaygain does not clip. -- 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
