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

sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
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 once per minute were apparent; I verified these by loading the fil