Re: Question on using mp3gain

Weird.  My AT is much louder than the digital out on my DVD player.


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:53 -0600, Jeff Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:
> The biggest thing that
> irritates the heck out of me is the fact that the audio coming out of the
> digital out on the Audiotron is one HECK of alot lower than that of other
> digital coax/optical sources I have... so if I switch the whole-house audio
> source from AT to CD player or something, I have to run all over the house
> to knock down the volume knobs quite a few notches to prevent being
> evicted.. or eviscerated by the wife.  :)
>
> Thanks, Brent.
>
> Regs,
> Jeff
>
>
> At 12:46 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote:
> >Yeah...I know that redbook audio supports a theoretical 96db of dynamic
> >range. But I don't think that necessarily transfers across to saying that
> >the RMS loudness of a track is optimal when it is 96 (according to MP3Gain).
> >I could be wrong on that, though.
> >
> >I've always been a little puzzled by how RMS is expressed anyway. For
> >instance, SoundForge expresses RMS as a negative number, with 0 being the
> >theoretical maximum loudness. A track that MP3Gain lists as having an RMS of
> >94 might equate to an RMS value of -16.5 db in SoundForge.
>
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