[MLA] Normalizing on Tidal

[Kevin Gross]

Yes, that's the direction we need to head. That's what our MLA whitepaper
is asking for.

As an aside, a couple years ago I did some design work for commercial mic
preamps and found that analog control of amplifier gain is not often a win.
The best solution is often just to make a nice quiet constant gain
amplifier, connect to a quality ADC and do all your level control
digitally. I'm pretty sure the same would apply to headphone outputs for
portable players.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> > Eelco I think I understand what you're saying and it would be great if
> there were more systems where normalization adjusted the final volume for
> the setting (regardless of whether that's an analog or digital control). An
> alternative, as Bob points out, is to use floating point or other high
> dynamic range audio path. To my knowledge none of this exists for portable
> devices.
>
> Not yet no. But I know at least one initiative that will be cross platform
> (including iOS and Android) and supports this behavior, both for streaming
> and local files. Let's hope we can eventually all head in that direction...
>
> Cheers,
> Eelco
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