cliveb;603542 Wrote: > OK, understood. Track peak of Hello Goodbye on my MMT matches yours - > 0.791992. However, I think you've misinterpreted these figures when you > speak of "80dB" and "95dB". Those replaygain peak levels are linear - > respectively 79.1992% (which is about -2dB) and 95.8282% (which is > about -0.4dB). Not such a huge disparity after all, would you agree? > > And this raises another point. Surely the relative loudness of the > various tracks on the album ought to vary according to their mood. It > seems very reasonable to me that the all-out rocking title track can be > expected to peak a little higher than Hello Goodbye. > > If the 09 remaster has bumped the levels of the quieter tracks, then > hasn't the artistic flow of the album has been (slightly) compromised? > (I have no problem with them using a little DSP magic to tease a bit of > extra life from the tapes, but messing with the relative loudness levels > seems a bit heavy-handed). > > Actually, come to think of it, a more instructive comparison would be > the various replaygain GAIN levels, as this is a better indicator of > their relative perceived loudness. On the 88 master, the track gain for > the title track is -5.1dB, while that for Hello Goodbye is -3.7dB. This > suggests that the title track is intended to sound about 1.5dB louder > than HG. What's the comparison on the 09 remaster?
Yes you are correct - I didn't mean dB! The level of all tracks has been raised slightly in the remaster. track gain for 2009 HG is -6.69dB and -7.45 for MMT. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - 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), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72852 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
