slartibartfast wrote: > As an example of being stuck with lousy sound on Tidal etc I just > listened to Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery. The only > version available on Tidal is a 2014 remix which is probably worse than > a remaster. Levels are all over the place and the tubular bells in > Jerusalem are AWOL. > I ripped my original UK LP using Audacity and recorded the first track > "Jerusalem" from Tidal to compare the waveforms. On the LP the opening > of the song is very close to the same volume as the end of the song. On > the remaster from Tidal the end of the song is over 7 dBs louder than > the beginning! You need to dive for the volume control halfway through > the song [emoji1787] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
that's more extreme than usual I think, but a great example. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.x/4TB>LMS 8.2.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>hifiberry Dac+Pro (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir3 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, Material Skin, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* -Ripping-: dBpoweramp > FLAC; -Post-rip-: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; -Streaming:- Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115844 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
