callesoroe wrote: > It is a fact that almost all DAC's do not sound good with clipped > signals. And this is what happens when recordings are mastered way to > loud. > No, however often you repeat it, it is wrong. If your mastering is mastered so loud that it clips no volume, gain or whatever change can get the signal back, it broken, you've got just noise, if you play it less loud it will still be noise.
> > Using replay gain you turn Down the heavy mastered recordings, and NO > clipping comes to your DAC..... And it just sounds better.... > If this works it means your DAC is fundamentally broken because it doesn't even meet one of it's minimum design specification which is to be able to handle maximum volume samples. These samples will be there all the time, even without dynamics compression and your DAC will then clip, too. Life is too short to listen to a broken DAC, get a different one, every 2$-DAC has to be able to do this. Actually constant high-volume signals are not even very complex. A permanent maximum-volume-signal is the most boring and most easy to handle signal ever, high dynamic range is more complex for the DAC. This is not analog signal processing where people were mastering music all the time to go _beyond_ the specification which meant you could get clipping when playing that at high volume or even within your processing change. You can't master _beyond_ maximum in digital signal processing (or you get something permanently broken) and each DAc has to be able to cope with the maximum signal. So if your clipping indicator goes up at full volume and does not when you apply replay gain, get a different DAC, it's broken. It's as simple as that. Most DACs even have plenty of range they can handle above the maximum values because that way you can avoid nonlinearities at the end of the range, clipping must not happen in a DAC. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104121 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
