levelling volume of music on NAS

Posted by: Sloop John B on 27 November 2011

So now I have a fair bit of music on my NAS and have  made a few playlists and the volume is all over the place with 1990 CDs and 2011 CDs at such different volumes as to make the playlist unworkable.

 

  1. is there an inbuilt way in UniQute like "sound check" on an IPOD? 
  2. can you level the sound of music already on the NAS (I tied media monkey which seems to suggest it can do it but comes up rather helpfully with "error 1")
  3. Does it have to be done while ripping? I use dBPoweramp and I'm presuming the DSP effect "volume normalise" will do the trick?

 

Thanks for any help offered.

 

 

 

 

Posted on: 23 January 2014 by DavidDever

DACs (or streaming preamps) with digitally-controlled analogue volume controls could do just that. 

 

In fact, it wouldn't be difficult for Naim to implement this with Uniti products (or any future product with digitally-controlled analogue volume, e.g., Statement):  read gain tag, round/truncate value to resolution of volume control, nudge volume up or down, add setting option to user preferences menu....

Posted on: 23 January 2014 by DomTomLondon

I find this a problem as well. Not just with CDs with music from the sixties and seventies, but also with SACD rips. The DSD files are about 6db lower than most PCM audio. Which is fine if playing full albums. But I like to create playlists from multiple albums and it would be nice to have an option to normalise the volume to 0db for every tack in a playlist.

 

(BTW. the DSD files are converted to PCM 24.88 to play on the Qute)

Posted on: 23 January 2014 by Sloop John B
Originally Posted by DomTomLondon:

I find this a problem as well. Not just with CDs with music from the sixties and seventies, but also with SACD rips. The DSD files are about 6db lower than most PCM audio. Which is fine if playing full albums. But I like to create playlists from multiple albums and it would be nice to have an option to normalise the volume to 0db for every tack in a playlist.

 

(BTW. the DSD files are converted to PCM 24.88 to play on the Qute)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who finds the volume discrepancy annoying.

I was beginning to think I had some sort of acoustic psychological syndrome (APS).

 

 

 

SJB