I added tranck and album gain tags to all my files b/c I often listen in random mode and got tired of constantly adjusting the volume.
In general, using the "smart gain" setting seems to work fairly well. However, I find that for some tracks (source is very loud?) I still fill the need to turn the volume up. In fact, on these tracks I have to turn the volume up massively to get the level I want. Not something I'm sure I want to do to my speakers. What I don't understand, that if I play the same tracks in a whole album setting (not during random play) I still notice the same problem. I'd think that when the playlist is one entire album that the relative volumes of the tracks would be preserved and I wouldn't hear this same phenomenon. -- firedog GIK Acoustics Room Treatments. Tranquil PC fanless server running Vortexbox OS; SB Touch slaved to Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-DAC-V3, classDaudio SDS-470 amp; MF X-150 as pre-amp, Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Dual 506 + Ortofon 20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88971 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
