Indeed, I agree that if it's audible then we're talking to Superman. The DTS version being -3.2dB, there's no risk of additional clipping by a digital EQ, so we're golden. Thanks for attention to the audio, it certainly matters!
Maybe I misread; I took it as being a lossless version of the DTS-HD MA mono track. I have not checked the levels on that, no, but I am watching as we speak and it's really great. ;)
michaelkirschner said:
Another obstacle is that there seems to be some issues with the 2.5 that Harmy released, whether the issue is on Harmy's end or on the user end remains to be fully sussed out.
On the off chance this is partially referring to my comment about the mono audio track, be assured that 325 total lightly clipped audio samples out of 48,000 per second is more of an issue on paper than in practice. I still would like to see that fixed, but it doesn't qualify as tarnish on the release, in my opinion. More of an FYI, audio nerd to audio nerd.
Hi all, been following this thread for some time. Congrats on the release. Still downloading here.
Harmy/hairy_hen:
Just a friendly heads-up: The mono flac file that was posted is slightly clipped in a few spots. I doubt it's audible, but if an EQ is used during playback there may be further peaking.
Anyway, I did a gentle restoration here which resulted in peak levels of +0.9dB, after which I reduced the entire audio by -1.0dB for a fairly standard peak level of -0.1dB. So, smoothed the peaks and compensated the final level.
Of course, nothing is better than working from original sources, so perhaps a slight correction could be added to the to-do list for future revisions. It would seem that an extra 1dB of headroom should be sufficient.