Julf wrote: > If the recording already has clipping, there is nothing you can do about > it. > If your DAC clips with a full-scale signal, it is rather badly designed > - and easily fixed by not playing at full volume. > > So what you need is not replay gain, but a sensible gain structure in > your system.
Off topic here to i'm actually on to this ,the Idea that many modern loudness war treated recordings have to many adjacent full scale samples and these can give intersample overshots in many DAC's filters and oversamplers . Recordings are simply not meant to be like this so there is per se nothing wrong with such a DAC , but never the less at least benchmark has begun to design in headroom for this . Yes can be adressen by not having the volume at 100% but rg does it to by in most cases makes the volume lovar -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87364 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
