jeffmeh;165279 Wrote: > Can you provide an explanation as to why the attenuation done by > replaygain is going to kill dynamics at one's preferred volume level > any more than turning down the volume to reach that level? I would > like to understand the factual basis on this one. Thanks.
Oh, gladly. Take example of Beethoven's 5th. First movement with its infamous 'pa pa pa paaa, pa pa pa paaaa' goes rather high in Dbs or shall we say, it's rather loud. Then right after that there's a second movement with very silent, quiet string parts. Together, they form a huge dynamic range. Now, Mr. Karajan and his crew have been chosen for their talent, and have worked for years to perfect how they do that, so I'd say they are quite an authority in that field. What various replaygains do is dynamycally equalize those tracks to what is considered (by the programmer) reasonable dynamic range. So it would silence pieces of the the first mevement and enhance some pieces on the second one, just like you would do taking the wolume down when it feels too loud and then back up again when you can't hear it. What you are effectively doing is saying: ' S...w you, Mr. Karajan, I know better how that Beethoven is supposed to sound. In my system, to my ears this sounds better' :) So, while from time to time volume really needs to be taken down or up a notch while listening (WAF reasons, mostly :) ), that is better done using the volume knob, as, once the track is processed, the information is lost and there's no going back. Well, this was a theory, however, I was hit hard in practice with it too. Not so long ago, I was in the market for a speakers, so what I did was to prepare a compilation of maybe 50 differen fragments of various types of music I listen and burn it to the CD. Didn't notice that 'normalize' box was checked on my burning software. As a result, since 50 pieces of recording can have a huge dynamic range as they come from different albums, some of them were compressed so much, that the next day they would just create loud buzzing from tweeters. K -- slimkid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30898 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
