Some people have problems hearing faint sounds, some have problems with transients, some have problems with both. These are problems that many people experience when they grow older and some even long before that. All of these people would presumably actually *benefit* from the loudness war. They would simply hear more of the music, without the pain during the transients.
This is the same principle that makes music with low dynamics more easy to listen to using only tiny computer speakers. Too faint and you can't hear anything for the buzzing fan, too loud overloads the speakers. (Like many others I experience listening fatigue when I listen to music with low dynamics. But I haven't yet developed any hearing problems, I think, so I prefer high dynamics just because I can.) Best Regards, Gandhi not often enough well recorded and mastered cds *|* dbpoweramp with accuraterip *|* flac *|* fanless asrock z77e-itx intel i5-3570t *|* ubuntu 12.04.1 lts 32-bit *|* lms 7.8.0 *|* brutefirdrc 3.0 (rewv5) *|* transporter (balanced out) *|* thule ia252b *|* audio physic scorpio *|* no fancy cables. *+* also some booms. *+* harmony 525s for them all, including waking the server from s3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gandhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102391 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
