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Originally Posted by Lupo  That's the beauty of clipping(and poor limiting) and probably the reason why many people thinks it sounds better than proper limiting. The clipped waveform doesn't loose all the peak level information. Those peaks are still existing in the digital audio stream, in a modified way, waiting to hit the consumer end where there hopefully is a 1000+ dollars state of the art digital->analog converter. Or not. Research by Nilsen and Lund at TC Electronics, available in the tech library on the TC website, indicates that most consumer CD player DAC's does not handle this abuse. In most cases, what sounds good IS good, but in this case - what sounds good only sounds good on expensive equipment. The master engineer have no possible way to know what's going to happen at the consumer end. |
So what happens if I clipp the signal at a lower level and in a 'controlled way', before the final stage? Will the peak information create any/less troubles for non
expensive equipments then to?
