[geoff]

On 16/02/2016 8:50 a.m., wrote:
geoff asked: "So what's this 'Conservative settings' ? " Never peaking above -6dBfs? I own a few CDs like that. Whole
thing was recorded at insanely low levels.

That would be likely to make distortion *worse* than peaking higher.
Maybe not on a 1630, but I have no experience of those. And you sure as
hell don't.

And the recorded level has little to do with the level on a CD.

geoff