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On 20 May 2012, at 10:41, Jes=FAs J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> ...
> Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second =
method (adjust while playing, rather than while ripping). Someday you =
will want to hear the whole disk as it was intended, =85

I agree that adjust-whilst-playing is the best method, but we won't be =
hearing this music as intended for a while.

All digital Led Zep releases (i.e. including all CDs) are notoriously =
poorly remastered, with excessive gain applied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

So far they have deteriorated with each remastering / re-release.=20

Huge threads on the Steve Hoffman forums discussing this, if you want to =
cork sniff.

Stroller.