maggies wrote: > Replay gains diminish sound quality? > > Originally, I thought that one thing that might be causing the problem > with the digital feed was that the wav file was soo loud I could barely > listen with the pre amp volume slightly above zero...So maybe the pre > amp wasn't fully engaged??? > > I just went back and re ripped the cds with a tag to reduce the digital > gain. Is that going to be worse? I will let you know how it works.
What are you ripping with? EAC or dbpoweramp? Replaygain is just a tag and doesn't alter the audio (still bit perfect rip). I didn't know one could use replaygain tags with WAV files. I use FLAC (and I use replaygain tags). But the player (in this case LMS and TOUCH) use the tag to modify volume. On 16/44.1 files, this is fine as long as your volume is 80-100% or so. With 24/96 files, there could be an issue as the volume (digital volume) is being reduced, so may not be bit perfect (although this is very UNLIKELY audible by human beings unless an extreme reduction). Squeezeboxes are always using 24 bit (even for 16/44.1 files) and its digital volume control is using some of those otherwise unused bits (a non technical explanation!). Thus, digital volume modfication in the SB players is not generally a problem. If you're using wav, and given your quality equipment, I suspect you've become a believer in wav cult (FLAC and other lossless is not really the same as wav according to the wav cult). That's fine if in fact my guess is true, but just for some tests, try converting a few wav files to FLAC, adding RG tags, turning on, then off, "smart gain" in LMS on the SETTINGS > PLAYER > AUDIO tab, and then doing some more comparisons. (and search hydrogenaudio.org for lots of threads on wav vs flac/lossless compression. And while there, download foobar2000 and the ABX component, and do some ABX tests to confirm for yourself that there is no difference in FLAC vs WAV. but bottom line, something really is not right if you're finding worse audio from the Touch S/PDIF into your DAC. This should *not* be the case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96383 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
