Re: Question on using mp3gain

Paul,

Hmmm.. that is weird.  Both the digital out and the analog out that is
actually used to pipe stuff through the audio switcher and power amps to
the whole house are much quieter for me.  I've honestly considered looking
inside to see if I could replace the op amp on the analog back end to get
louder analog outs.  At least with your being much LOUDER, you can always
use the AT's volume control to bring it down closer to your other source's
levels.  Unfortunately, the AT only has attenuation, not gain as part of
the user interface.

Thanks,
Jeff


At 01:38 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote:
>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.
> >
> > JEFF HAYES      [email protected]
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Digital Audio System Specialist
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