egd;265865 Wrote: > What are you doing to split the tracks? > > *Edit:* Having now ripped all of my music related DVDs containing LPCM > and listened to some I am quite surprised at how much better the LPCM > ripped off the DVDs sounds. I had to adjust the Aego M's volume > control upward to get the same volume, but the music is definitely more > dynamic. Looking at the waveform it is obvious why - the CD streams are > more compressed than the DVD streams. From now on I'll be looking to > purchase DVDs ahead of CDs so long as there is a LPCM or other lossless > stream in the DVD and it can be ripped. Could turn out cheaper too as > it seems the DVDs often sell for less the the CD. Pity there's not > always a DVD available.
There's an option in DVD Audio Extractor to write each "chapter" (track) to a separate file, but this is not the default setting, so you have to manually select this option. So far as DVD LPCM tracks being more dynamic, some producers choose not to heavily compress DVD audio. However, one example of a bad sounding DVD is the Carly Simon album "Moonlight Serenade". This is a dual-disc issued by Sony with CD 16/44.1 on one side and DVD LPCM 16/48 on the other. The DVD LPCM is indeed about 4 dB lower, but its still brick-wall limited, just like the CD side... The only difference is that they never use the upper 4 dB on the DVD side, the brick-wall is at -4 dBFS rather than at 0 dBFS. The DVD side does have an additional interview section, which I extracted with DVD AE, but there was no point in keeping the DVD LPCM which duplicated the CD; both sounded equally bad. What was Sony thinking??? That said, I've had very good results extracting the 24/96 LPCM from Classic Records DAD releases; the sound is breathtaking. Although I've not got a good way to play it back without downsampling, I've also had good results extracting the 24/192 from the DVD-A side of the Classic HDAD releases, but not with DVD AE. I use DVD-A Explorer (a totally different program) to extract the MLP files, eac3to to uncompress the Merridian Lossless Packing to WAV, and finally FLAC to pack it back up. What I haven't tried yet is to grab the 24/96/3.0 files from some of the historic Bert Whyte 35 mm magnetic film recordings released on Classic HDAD discs. It will be a real challenge to preserve not only 24-bits and 96 KHz, but also 3 channels (left - center - right), the format of the original 1960-era recordings. Unfortunately, I don't think SqueezeCenter, the Squeezebox or even a Transporter will be of much help with 3-channel audio. Luckily Classic also made various 2-channel down-mixes available on these releases. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42695 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
