cliveb;421287 Wrote: > Quite so - plenty of (unclipped) classical CDs have an album peak of 1. > > > Peak=1 plus a high replaygain value is probably a warning sign as you > say, but it's not quite so simple. There are plenty of modern pop/rock > albums that are clipped to buggery but have a peak level below 1. > > It's amusing to speculate why the peak level is below 1 in these cases. > Either the mastering engineer is trying to hide from the casual observer > the fact that he's perpretrated clipping (a deliberate cover-up), or > he's heard that you should leave a bit of headroom to avoid distortion > in some DACs (ironic that he should want to preserve fidelity after > completely trashing the album to start with). > > I don't have any experience with this DeClip tool, but here's an > experiment worth trying. Take an album that you know is not clipped but > has a peak level of 1 and run it through the DeClip tool. Is the output > identical to the input (ie. does DeClip pass non-clipped audio through > unmolested)? If it is, then can't you just whack everything through > DeClip without first determining if it has clipping?
All good stuff Clive - I'm on the case. I have quite a few non-clipped, non heavily compressed albums that peak at 1.0. I'll do some tests and report back... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57872 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
