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RE: Output gain at -5dB is a bad idea

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In Reply to: RE: Output gain at -5dB is a bad idea posted by zanash on September 02, 2007 at 23:37:02

The largest boost I have in the EQ is +4.5db. So setting the gain in the utilities menu to -5 means for the maximum 0db input level at that frequency, the output will be -0.5db after the EQ, just below clipping. The DEQ2496 will not actually clip - it limits the output to 0db and this is a non-defeatable limit.

I find the gain at -5db is just fine - no loss of dynamics that I can detect. For a quiet recording such as choral music I may increase the gain to -3db just to keep from having to turn the preamp up so high. I'm still experimenting.

Today I added a SRC2496 ahead of the DEQ2496, with an optical connection between the two and optical from the SRC2496 to the CD transport. I will have to do further listening to see if upsampling to 96kHz or 88.2kHz is better. I assume that using the SRC2496 internal clock is best.

Follow Ups:

RE: Output gain at -5dB is a bad idea - Dynaudio_Rules 04:58:54 09/05/07 (3)
- RE: Output gain at -5dB is a bad idea - kh6idf 05:55:33 09/05/07 (2)
  - SRC2496 results after a little more listening - kh6idf 18:19:29 09/05/07 (1)
    - RE: SRC2496 results after a little more listening - Dynaudio_Rules 14:51:13 09/06/07 (0)

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