slimkid;165269 Wrote: > And also begs an audiophile type question: Unless it's done for DJ > purposes, why mess with track/album gain at all. It kills dynamics. If > I was bitter, I'd add it's also OK for rap/techno/hip-hop :)
Replay gain does not kill dynamics. All it does is set attenuation so that selections from multiple albums come out at about the same volume level. It is the same thing you would do using a volume control if you didn't have replaygain enabled. It is very useful if you make playlists or play random song selections from your collection and don't want to have to keep fiddling with the volume control with each new title. There is no dynamic range compression involved, except for the loss of theoretical dynamic range because the the maximum volume has been lowered while the noise floor remains unchanged. There are few, if any CDs that actually make use of the full dynamic range the disc is capable of recording, so there is plenty to "throw away" for replay gain. IIRC, in my collection, replaygain typically lowers the track gain by 3-5 dB. Replay gain is your friend. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30898 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
