MrSinatra;323633 Wrote: > cool article: > > http://www.machrone.net/mt/archives/digital_audio_players/creative/index.html > > u may not need RG for it. (my zen V plus has "smart volume")
Cool indeed. This looks like a sort of smart compression. I should have RTFM. It might be the answer to my original problem. Which I neglected to mention in my first post - some tracks when played on the Zen can sound quite distorted in loud passages, high notes in female vocals etc. Like it's clipping. Here's where it gets interesting. As I said in my OP, I ripped to FLAC with EAC and transcoded to mp3 with flac2mp3. As advised in this thread, I installed mp3Gain and analysed a few mp3 albums with it. It declared that about 2/3 of the tracks were clipping. Some of them had levels of 92-93 dB, whre the ususal maximum is 89 dB. Does this mean that the mp3s (or even the FLACS) were created at too high a level and will decode to a clipped analogue wave no matter what level adjustment is made? In other words are they stuffed :) -- swhite58 Clark Connect Linux file server->Various boxes with flashing lights->SB3->Zhaolu D3 DAC->NAD C320BEE->Polk Monitor 4.5/Sennheiser headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ swhite58's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5038 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50190 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
