cliveb wrote: > It isn't just mainstream stuff that gets mangled by dynamic range > compression. Most of my purchases are in the rock genre but nowhere > close to mainstream. And they are still over-compressed. It just seems > to be some kind of dogma these days to compress rock & pop this way. > Glad to see Ralph report that jazz is not affected in the same way.
What I do notice is that many new jazz releases and new jazz remasters, while not featuring dynamic range compression, are mastered to play louder. In other words, the dynamic range is still quite respectable but the average overall volume is louder, kind of like the entire dynamic range is shifted up a few db. I should also note that I do not listen to smooth jazz so I don't know if this sub-genre suffers from the loudness wars (which would be no big deal since smooth jazz suffers from ills and musical sins which are much, much worse than dynamic range compression :)). Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102391 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
