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David Lennick wrote:
By the way, can anyone tell me why most DVDs are mastered at such low levels?
Then you go to the special features and burst your eardrums. $1 DVDs tend to
have normal audio levels as well.
dl
Are you sure you haven't reversed the situation? I've yet to encounter a
DVD in which peak level was significantly below the maximum for
reproduction. What I do find is that most commercial DVDs avoid the
extreme saturation and clipping common in CD-DA.
If my experience is right, you are accustomed to substantial
overrecording and faulting DVDs for not falling for it.