Julf wrote: > Yes, that's what I alluded to in one of my first answers to callesoroe's > misconceptions. Badly designed DACs might not be able to handle the > over-0-db peaks that result from interpolation (not related to > compression or "loudness wars"), but the fix is simple - just turn down > the volume a bit. > > > > Yes, but that can not be magically undone with replay gain (or any other > gain adjustment).
My references in my old tread is old , but when company's like benchmark did not fix this until 2013 what gives for other brands . Misconception . I don't think you can say that all DAC's have this problem but an unknown ratio of them do have this problem but are they really badly designed ? In retrospect they are bad designs , but the signals presented by today's music is not " meant to be" if you ask some old school audio engineer ? What gives ? 1. Turn down the volume anyway you want replaying is one way it gives typically -10dB or use the volume control . 2. I would love to see test similar to those done in TC aes papers done to more recent DAC or some of the squeezebox models . 3. You can use an unfiltered nos DAC sans interpolation filters :P but give many any "bad" DAC instead and I happily employ -6dB digitally . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104121 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
