The thing is that when you compress audio like with MP3, MPC, Vorbis etc. scalefactors should be taken in consideration. It's not the same thing as playing the PCM data file prior to the compression - to amplitude is higher in the new material - hence clipping without the source clipping...

Did anyone actually bother to test the PAD card prior to and after modding? It would be insteresting if anyone actually got any improvement or negative effect of this experiment. RMAA or SpectraLAB

uninteresting. home or not doesn't matter. KS is still illadviced as choice and isn't suspected to work as you might hope or think.

oh, and it's more likely you get a ****ed up output with KS. It doesnt improve sound quality, just prevents quality degradation

Just a little note, KS doesn't 'improve' sound. it bypasses kmixer, which also means you can disable 'wave' under sndvol32.

As always, LAME MP3 encoder/decoder should be used.

no hostility intendend, at all.

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ehm.. Ofcourse... it's EAC's forum :B

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