I upgraded straight away because I wanted to use VBR.

VBR worked fine in 1.03, the only problem was that fast forward and rewind were a little sketchy. But VBR tracks played fine in 1.03.

But using through my home system. I seems easy to over drive the output, especially as the FAQ recommends setting the volume to 0.0db.

0db should not overdrive the inputs on your home stereo. Here are some possible causes:

- You have plugged it into the PHONO inputs instead of a proper line-level input. Use a tape or CD input instead, not the phono input.

- You have increased the loudness setting very high.

- You are using the 4v outputs from the car sled instead of the 1v home outputs.

- There is a known bug in 2.0b3 which causes some songs to be overdriven for some users. This is covered in the Bug Reports. You can downgrade to 1.03 and see if it takes care of the problem. It will be fixed in the next beta release.


Perhaps I shouldn't be normalising to 98% which is the default in the software. What do other users do ?

It has nothing to do with normalization. Your CDs were probably already normalized and your normalizing routine is doing little or nothing to the levels of the songs.