mp101 Wrote: > I ripped a load of CD's recently from eac to flac, I used > --replaygain-accurate, the result? well on at least 1 CD (Undertow, > from TOOL) is awful, cymbals etc are atrocious, and its horrible to > listen to. I had smartgain on, then tried track gain and it was the > same, turned it off and restarted the sb3 and it was better. I the > also turned off the bit limiting feature, which I thought was only used > when transcoding to mp3, and the quality changed even more (for the > better), so I guess this was really my problem
Yes it was, If you use bit rate limiting then it is converted to mp3 on the fly. You thinking the cymbals sounded atrocious should have been a big enough clue that you were listening to mp3's ;-) Craig -- Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=96 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
