PatOMalley
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Are you saying that the CDs that cause clipping are the compressed overamped ones?
Let me know what CD and track. I will fetch one just to have a listen.
I have Amy Whinehouse ~ Back to Black; that has to be a candidate.
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I have Amy Whinehouse ~ Back to Black; that has to be a candidate.
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Originally Posted by adriaan243 /img/forum/go_quote.gif "No change! I do not agree to change to solve problem from 'wrong' record. Clipping is not problem from dac but from records with too high basal output. We spent all week to study this problem. We made final decision, we decide to keep out design and its sound charactristic. Some records will hear clipping, we give up." It seems Valab made an "artistic" decision! They made a choice for what is in their opinion better sound. But from a technical point of view they are wrong, no decent CD player or DA converter will clip before the 100% level. Clipping should only occur in a real overload situation, the 0 level. In classical music and jazz this does not happen very often and most mastering engineers avoid the 100% level, but -3db and even -2 and minus 1db are quite normal and in some cases like rock and pop engineers push the CD level to the maximum and in these cases clipping noises may occur in this DAC. So actually hearing clipping or not may depend on your musical taste. The choice is simple: 330 ohm for those who have clipping problems and 390 ohm for those who seem to prefer the sound with the 390 ohm resistor. |