Question about transfer of legacy recordings

[Hungerdunger]

I've just transferred a load of old 292kbps recordings to my computer using my new RH1.

I want to get them back onto one Hi-MD disc, but this means I'm going to have to convert them to 192kbps as I transfer them.

Now my hearing isn't too discerning, but I'd be interested to know whether there should be, either theoretically or practically, any difference in the quality of the finished transfer if I use either the 292 file or the WAV file as my source.

[bobt]

Every one's hearing is different, easiest way is to transfer one song at various bitrates ans see if you are comfortable with the results, best way is to put the playback in shuffle mode and see if you "really"

can tell the difference.

Have fun

Bob

[Hungerdunger]

I've just transferred a load of old 292kbps recordings to my computer using my new RH1.

I want to get them back onto one Hi-MD disc, but this means I'm going to have to convert them to 192kbps as I transfer them.

Now my hearing isn't too discerning, but I'd be interested to know whether there should be, either theoretically or practically, any difference in the quality of the finished transfer if I use either the 292 file or the WAV file as my source.

I think I may have an answer to my own question.

I forgot to mention that the recording levels vary quite a bit on the legacy recordings. AFAIAW there is no way to normalise these recordings during the SonicStage transfer process, but presumably I could normalise the WAV files first, hopefully without any loss of quality.

Am I right about this? If so, can anyone recommend a good program for WAV normalising?

[greenmachine]

Wav normalizing isn't a completely lossless process, but close enough. You could try "wavegain".