"Lord Hasenpfeffer" wrote in message

I ripped U2, "War", track 1, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" last night and
copied the WAV twice. I ran "normalize" across copy #1 using the
default -12dBFS value. I then ran "normalize" across copy #2 using my
preferred -10dBFS value. Then I produced an animated screenshot which
compared the differences between all three. I can clearly see about 5
peaks in the song which are being obviously limited in the -10dBFS WAV.
But how you can label this as "severely dicking with the music" I do
not understand. If I were producing a master CD for commercial use, the
situation would be different, but since I am not, it's not that great of
a concern to me.

You are satisfied with MP3-quality results @128kbps (or 192 or whatever) -
I am not. So it's horses-for-courses.


geoff