Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
For the sake of future searches for this thread, "clipping" is a better keyword than is "over-range". And I finally realized that the distortion associated with the clipping which I am experiencing is very much like sibilance or the distortion produced by a kazoo. %%% I searched for discussions

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech [130307 04:15]: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:47 + > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: ... >> It occurs to me that I could use an editor such as Audacity to >> reduce the signal amplitude; but I do not know whether that >> approach would give results which are sonically-pleasing. ... >

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:47 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On a broadcast-grade CD deck with high-resolution bar-graph meter with > over-range indicator, the playback sounds clean and no over-range > distortion ("spattering") is obvious. > > However, when the SPDIF output from a playback de

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech [130306 22:27]: ... > > > Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran > > quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an > > audiobook CD to .flac files. > > > > But upon subsequent listening to the .flac files, over-ranges about > > onc

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:10:30 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran > quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an > audiobook CD to .flac files. > > But upon sub