ceejay;165415 Wrote: > I think you are being a bit harsh on "all" replaygain techniques here. > First, adding a replaygain tag to a file doesn't lose any information > at all, you can choose whether to apply it or not at play time. Second, > they don't twiddle the volume at all within a track (which would be most > annoying) or (I'm not sure whether you think this or not) apply any > compression. And if you apply "albumgain" then the same volume > adjustment will be made equally to all tracks/movements, so there is no > question of overriding Mr Karajan or his colleagues. > > I'm not saying, BTW, that all gain adjustment techniques are without > any of these problems - merely that it is quite possible to get volume > normalisation without messing with the music... > > YMMV > > Ceejay
Ok, just to clarify a couple of things. I'm not trying to debate various technical solutions here. Surelly, some are better than others. And of course, when I said that information is lost and compression introduced, I meant if dynamic equalisation or normalisation is done during the format conversion/burning proces. My main point is, in the context of an audiophile world, where (some) people would pay $x.000 for just cables that don't change the nature of their signal, where tone controls are long gone, where the best pre-amp is no preamp, doing something like autogain would be considered rather radical. And, BTW, replaygain will change the volume of the track (even digitally, but that is being debated in different topic), so in my prior example, dynamic difference between first and second movement will be changed (decreased), which is messing with Karajan's intentions :) -- 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
