I noticed that some music that I ripped sounded bad, with clipping distorsion during loud parts. I have done some testing:
- The clipping is both when ripping to mp3 and wav (setting normalization to a lower value does not help).
- It's not clipping on the original CD (I made a low level analogue recording from my external CD-player, and it was OK).
- It's both when ripping with Media Jukebox and CDex.
- I have removed the analogue cable from the CD to the sound card, so it's not analogue clipping at the sound card.
- I have tested ripping from both my CD-player and my CD-writer -- clipping from both.
- I have checked the device manager, and enabled digital CD playback and lower CD playback volume. Still clipping.
It seems like it is a level mismatch for the digital transfer from the CD to the wav-file. Is this possible? Does anyone know what the problem might be? Would be very grateful for suggestions.