"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Scott Gardner" wrote in message


I'm recording some albums to my computer, and I'm having
trouble getting adequate volume in the completed files. I'm sure it's
just the combination of my cartridge and preamp. It's not unusably
low - with the input slider set all the way up on my sound card, I can
get it to -0.5 or -1.0 dB during the loud passages,

That's a great plenty, even way too much. It's good to have a little
headroom during the part of the process where you capture the sound on the
original media. By this I mean you should have from 6 to 10 dB of headroom
between the highest peaks and digital full scale.

This is simply wrong. I don't understand why Arny would propagate such
nonsense.