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Unfortunately, the techniques used to maximise the volume are damaging the music itself.

Steve Hoffman "Everything is loud, everything is bright, there's no subtlety in it at all, it's a sound that one would tire of fairly quickly."

"The brick wall has been reached. I wonder how long it will be before the record companies re-re-release their back catalogue, re-re-mastered for additional dynamic range?"



Nice find. I knew I had read something to this effect somewhere else. The article I had read put the onus on radio play as to why the CD's are getting louder, making the song seem better on the radio driving up sales. Could it be that with all the downloading, the songs are getting mastered even louder to try to make up for the loss in the extreme compressed formats?

Jason
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