"B. Peg" wrote in message
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Doing some from CDex, EAC, and Razorlame, the volume always seems to
increase from a WAV file that is max'ed but no clipping shows in
SoundForge.
Once ripped, the Mp3's all seem to clip and increase in volume when
checked


Lossy coding and decoding involves a pass through two pretty large banks of
filters. All filters ring which is what's causing the clipping. The same
thing happens with the filters used for sample rate conversion.

Digital audio is only robust when you are cloning a file. The minute you are
doing any kind of signal processing, you've stepped right back into the
world of needing to get your settings right exactly as with analog audio.

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