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Just downloaded the DSD as well as FLAC file. I noticed that when I play the DSD music file, the volume is very loud compare to when I play FLAC file. Is this normal or is there a setup setting for DSD vs Flac volume as I cannot play continuosly between DSD and FLAC files. One will be super loud when the player move from FLAC file to DSD file. Thanks
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What audio device are u using?
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I am using RPi 4 into Toppings D10S to a tube amp. I did not do any tweaking on Moode 7.2.1, just leave as it is. I just copy FLAC and DSD music files into the SDRAM and played from there. Volume set on Moode is only 1% and on amplifier is only at 7 o'clock and the sound of DSD files will be very loud. When move to FLAC music, I hardly hear anything until I turn up the volume on Moode to 50% and amplifier to 11 o'clock. The diiference in loudness is too significant.
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Hi Tim, Though I dont really understand what's going on but I just set the MPD volume to "Hardware" instead of software and Moode volume to 100%, it seemed to work well. So it seemed that for DSD music , if set to software, it automatically amplified the music? Is the sound quality compromise in using either software or hardware MPD volume control? Thanks again.
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MPD does not support software volume for DSD files, so when u play those files with software volume, its playing with full volume.