325xi;182285 Wrote: > Then we have an interesting mismatch between your reference and this > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war > > :) > > What may be is that HDCD itself does not involve compression, but > allows to do mastering with more compression, assuming that HDCD will > make it up. > > Anyways, what about ripping?
A bit perfect rip with FLAC files automatically contains the HDCD data in the LSB, so your best bet is use the WMP workaround to maximize the quality of the tracks. There is a thread about it but I don't know the details or if it truly works. Altering the LSB with digital volume control, or an imperfect rip (i assume), will ruin the HDCD data- but also leave the reduced SNR- i.e. no gain from not having the data (which may be useful later, should you obtain necessary hardware). I need to figure out the workaround, because I have a ton of HDCD discs and no decoder. Some HDCDs do sound very compressed, especially Neil Young albums. Others, like Garcia's 'The Pizza Tapes' and Mickey Hart's 'Supralingua' sound great without the decoder, but not any better than a well mastered redbook cd I guess. I'd also be curious how much bit error HDCD can tolerate, and assume that WMP must be as good as EAC in this regard... -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
