on 3/9/10 8:42 PM US/Central, Eric Jacobs wrote: > Transfering FLAT will cost you about 6-7 bits of dynamic range - an audible > loss. EQ in the digital domain will not recover that lost dynamic range. For a different conclusion, you might want to read Filter Reconstruction and Program Material Characteristics Mitigating Word Length Loss in Digital Signal Processing-Based Compensation Curves used for Playback of Analog Recordings By R.S. Robinson, Channel D Corp., Audio Engineering Society Paper 7185, Oct. 2007. -- Parker Dinkins Audio Mastering + Restoration http://masterdigital.com