Nostromo wrote: > Any idea who are the major culprits? There's Sony. No, while Sony is guilty of a lot of things, it is really the record producers and groups that have driven this. The Pro Audio folks have been complaining about "loudness wars" for years.
It is purely a myth that louder CDs get more airplay and thus more sales. What it does is suck all the life out of the music. And it destroys the hard work of the recording and mastering engineers. Why sweat to make it right to have some bozo crank up the compressor at the end? Its very disheartening. What is really sad is that *all* radio stations have their own compressors to wack the music and suck the life out of it. If you do it in the mastering stage, it will be double bad. Then you play it on Sirus or XM, and they "compress" it to "digital quality" and further suck life out of it. Which is OK for in a car, road noise, etc. makes it a terrible place for audio quality anyway. -- Pat Farrell PRC recording studio http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
