Mark Lanctot;175991 Wrote: > The only degradation possible is if there's a large positive adjustment > which will cause digital clipping. This won't be a problem with 99% of > modern music as it's so loud anyway and will have a negative RG value, > but could be a concern with classical music. MP3Gain can indicate > clipping and can apply the largest gain possible before clipping > occurs. Of course most gains will be negative, bringing the audio > further away from clipping.
Hmm, turns out I forgot something, the loss of resolution due to dropping the digital volume: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32244 Post #4. It's a choice of two evils though. Do you want to listen to the unadulterated, likely clipped-at-the-source track which will blow away any recording slightly quieter than it? Or do you risk the loss of a few bits of resolution? My vote is with the latter. Should be noted though, if it's clipped at the source, ReplayGain won't help with that. Those audio samples are not on the CD, they're gone and nothing short of remastering the CD will ever bring them back. But the sheer volume blast alone is enough to risk the few bits of resolution lost though. Have you ever listened to one of these tracks as the recording engineer intended? Horrible. It's about as subtle as a teenager's in-car audio system. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30936 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
