I had just replaced a few CD's with Remastered HDCD ones and was really bothered that I liked the old ones better. Something was wrong. I first thought they might be over compressed. Well it turns out it was the HDCD encoding which will make unprocessed rips sound 6dB hot and noisier.
I'm a big fan of dbpoweramp and just ran a bunch of these HDCD rips through the HD codec and now they sound fantasic. You can pass your whole library through it and it will only apply the HDCD decoding to tracks it sees it on. It's embedded in the 16bit data. Very slick. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48260 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
