Phil Leigh;542321 Wrote: > However, the crucial thing with HDCD is that it doesn't sound in any > way bad on a non-HDCD DAC...
I was listening to some mp3's on our common server at work and really liked one I had listened to a lot. So I bought the CD and ripped it to FLAC. It sounded aweful. Then I asked my coworker to bring in his CD. The one I bought was remastered as HDCD. Then I found out dbpoweramp can process the hdcd. After that it sounded great. Unprocessed HDCD is listenable but in no way sounds good. It's amazing how just a small shift of where the resolution is used can make significant difference. If you believe half the crap in this thread that you can attenuate 3 or 5 bits with no harm. HDCD would not work. But it most certainly does. You can think of HDCD as optimizing the gain dynamically. Don't confuse that with loudness. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter/DuetController > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > DuetReceiver > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
