I never really found replaygain meaningful for classical - a quiet movement should be just that, if you are listening to the entire work. There is also a lot of variance across box sets - many are recorded over years and sound quite different. I don't think you can have meaningful albumgain across many sets.
The other thing is that the peak level may well not correspond with the meaningful 'overall' level. Replaygain makes more sense with pop music, where you can balance the drum peaks, or whatever, and these peaks are pretty regular throughout the music. So I've ditched all automatic gain and just adjust it myself, which is fine for most music but a bit irritating for, say, Bruckner, which always starts quiet and gets LOUD :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost and Anti-cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33211 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
