[RainDawg]

Well, the problems I experienced with dbPowerAmp were with files done in a large batch, not a single file at a time. I'm not sure what caused it to freak out, but it could have been sector boundary errors, which this file does not contain according to the shntool output you posted. They could have also addressed issues with it in recent versions, it's been a while since I've used it, and I knew a lot less about this stuff than I did before.

Maybe you could do a similar test with a set that is NOT SB aligned, and see what the results are?

Again, I'm not sure what the problem with that software was, and back then I really didn't have the knowledge to test it...I just know that somehow the files got screwed up after using it (it could have been user error, of course )