pippin wrote: > No, it's a misunderstanding. Spotify DOES have a feature to normalize > volume across tracks and it DOES do additional dynamics compression > degrading the dynamics of your track. > It is, however, in the player software and it's an option you can turn > off, Triode's plugin supports that, too. I believe Logitech's ignores it > and never normalizes. > > Also, it's not true that mp3 at high bitrates and with good encoding > sounds the same as lossless. This is usually true if you have normal or > good hearing but if your hearing is impaired it does no longer hold. mp3 > (actually all of the lossy codecs) work by removing lower frequencies > that are masked out by higher frequencies by our ear (or more precisely: > by the audio compression our ear seems to do when transmitting the > signal to the brain). They do NOT restore these frequencies when > decoding the music. > However, if your hearing degrades and you can't hear the higher > frequencies masking the lower ones anymore the difference becomes > immediately obvious. You can easily test this by wearing earplugs (which > also filter higher frequencies more than lower ones), you will usually > easily detect the difference in an ABX test then.
What i can gather from googling is that even if you disable the volume normalisation , Spotify stillactually enable a peak limiter ? This is needed to handle "intersample overs" when decoding the stream specifically on very hot modern masters . What they should do instead is just simply lower the output a bit in the decoding process . The current implementation can do things to the music . I've not seen much info on how the normal Wimp service or hifi service handle this . But wimp itself is fixated on thier hifi streaming at the moment and does flood the ether with info about that . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (in storage 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=102351 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
