lake_eleven wrote: > The gain is set to MAX. I am thinking if this hub is an issue. > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1306462&CatId=4753
I'm not talking about the volume, I'm talking about "replay gain" which is a tag that some files carry which causes the volume to be changed at playback time. This is primarily used so that different songs can have the same "volume" when you put them together in a playlist. For example a very loud song would have a replay gain tag that would say play this song softer than normal, a very soft song might have a tag that says play louder than normal. If your file happens to have a replay gain tag that says to play the song very softly, it doesn't matter that the main volume is set to max, it will play softly. This replay gain function can be turned on or off in the setup menus of the Touch. The easy way to test this is to make sure that replay gain is turned off on the Touch and see if that makes any difference to the volume. You do this by going to the: Settings->Audio Settings->Volume Adjustment and select "No Volume Adjustment". If they still play soft I would bring the file up in a waveform editor and see if they really are soft. It might very well be soft to begin with. If the original master tape was recorded with a low level of compression then overall average level can be quite low in order to have room to properly preserve transients. If the people that did the hi res master didn't add extra compression, the average level in the file could very well be soft. One way to test this is to take a file you already have which plays at a correct level and resample it in software up to 24/96 and try playing that, if THAT plays softly and replay gain is turned off then there is an unusual issue somewhere along the line. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
