I feel that it might not be the ripping , because pop's and klick noises are very very rare.

Pops and clicks are the most noticeable, overt indications of a bad rip. If your computer/drive/ripper are working correctly, you should never, ever, in any circumstances, get a pop or a click. The incidence of pops and clicks in your rips should be absolute zero.

It's possible to have a bad rip that does not pop or click. I discovered that, at least on my drive, you could get files that sounded "OK" on cheap speakers, but their stereo image was completely screwed up, with instruments suddenly shifting between the left and right channels. Other users have experienced it, too, check out this FAQ entry.

So if you're getting any pops/clicks at all, I'd say start investigating the ripping stage. Before you bother to encode them to MP3, just rip raw WAV files and have a close listen on a pair of headphones before assuming that the MP3 encoding process is at fault.

is that the music sounds not ''clean" , there is extra noise and it's not "a live" , sparkling. Know what a mean ?

No, I don't know exactly what you mean. It sounds like you're trying to describe two separate, unrelated problems.

The first one: extra noise. Can you describe the noise in more detail? Is it part of the track itself, or can you hear the noise when you press the Pause button? What are the characteristics of the noise?

The second one: lack of "sparkling" detail to the sound. This could be a high-frequency loss due to MP3 encoding, or it could be a simple case of needing to add a little high-end to the EQ.

Are you only listening to these on the Empeg, or are you previewing them on your computer first? Do you notice a difference between the Empeg and your computer with regard to the sound? And what volume level are you listening to the Empeg at? Is it just a question of tuning your amp gains properly so that the Empeg runs closer to 0db?



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Tony Fabris