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RE: The Sad State of Recording......

Howdy Steve

If you normalize music so that there are some samples at the maximum representable values you may have an illegal signal: i.e. a signal that when reproduced (i.e. after the reconstruction filter) will be above 0dBFS near those points. Some people (not you in particular) forget that not every bit pattern on a disc represents a valid Redbook signal.

Cool Edit is actually pretty good, but I've "normalized" some material with it and gotten signals like I talk about above.

Contact me offline if you wish, but some ASRC based DACs overflow in their internal processing with signals like those above.

I'm taking no stand on the rest of this thread, nor have I read many other posts in it :)

-Ted

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