callesoroe wrote: > I fully aware of that...... But it can do something to the signal send > to your DAC. If replay gain is off, the "near clipping" indicator(on my > Tact) lights up all the time. It does not when you turn it Down. > What I mean by "just a number" is that a high DR number is NOT equal to > good soundquality. This is a big missunderstanding.....
Quite true, however a low DR number usually means that the recording is either dynamically compressed or has very little dynamic range (such as live recording of a heavy metal band playing with all their amps turned up to "11") which usually makes for a very unpleasant sounding recording. More to the point you are making, one could take something that was originally very well recorded with plenty of dynamic range and then add lots of dynamic range compression. What you would end up is a version of the recording with most of the original detail but now sounding rather lifeless, which is exactly what natural dynamic range imparts to a recording. Now whether or not you consider a well recorded but heavily compressed recording to have good sound quality is up to you. In my case I say NO. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101068 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
