ralphpnj wrote: > Thanks for the link! A very informative article. > > > > Neil Young should know better. Dynamic range compression has been around > a lot longer than digital audio and the mp3 format. Dynamic range > compression has been used in radio broadcasting since at the 1960s, if > not before that. Dynamic range compression is used to make the quieter > passages louder since when one is listening to the radio in a car the > quiet passages can often sound like "dead air" and "dead air" in radio > means death, i.e. that the listener will just change to another radio > station. The big difference between the dynamic range compression that > was used by radio stations and the the dynamic range compression in use > today is that in the old days the radio stations did the compressing (of > an uncompressed recording) whereas today the recording comes with > dynamic range compression already applied and once applied there is no > way to uncompress and restore the original dynamic range of the > recording.
Yup... Hate it when the sound is "baked in" :-( Time for a blog post on this: 'MUSINGS: The ongoing Vinyl vs. Digital debate...' (http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/02/musings-ongoing-vinyl-vs-digital-debate.html) Fascinating how Fremer brought out an article of questionable value... I see he also got upset at Neil Young (that's OK, who isn't upset at NY these days!?). Do these guys actually read what they post up!? Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
