It turns out that a upgrade of wimamp had replaced my "wave out" output plugin in Winamp. As far as I can tell, the MAD input pluging was outputting a 24bit stream,
and
I think the wave out plugin was truncating it down to 16bit.
Could you please give more details: wich winamp version was shipped with a restricted wav-out and wich version of the plugin did you used instead?
Regards,
---- Gabriel Bouvigne www.mp3-tech.org personal page: http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org