Volume level of commercial CD's.


Originally I could only play CD's directly on my CD player. A while ago I got a Sony Blu-ray player that can feed FLAC files to my dac. After converting several CD tracks to FLAC, I see that many are so loud that my preamp barely goes past 9 o'clock. In order to readjust the volume to have the preamp at 12 o'clock, I started converting the CD rips to wav and then using the Wavegain program and converting back to FLAC. Now the volume is much more adjustable on the preamp and it looks like a good solution to me, except for the hassle of having to run everything through Wavegain.

Is this the best solution?

rff000

Wavegain sounds interesting but you can do the same thing by adding attenuators on the DAC output (or other places).   

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Sounds like a problem with your conversion program. I recommend xrecode. Your CDs have commercials?