On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:45:20AM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > Ironically, those people who won't tolerate this kind of garbage do > tolerate the horrible mixing and volume levels of any recent recording. > Even vocal and orchestrated music is recorded this way nowadays. It's > horrible. The subtle nuances of the quieter tones are all drown out by > the volume compression. Even on a basic CD we have 20 bits to mess with > yet all the studios make the sound as loud as they can, reducing the > amount of useful sound levels. Instead of pristine, 20-bit sound, it's > often all packed into the upper 4 bits (amplitude-wise). Why they do > this is beyond me. My stereo is perfectly capable of expanding and > amplifying the signal.
If it's a home stereo, I feel the same way. However, in my car, I would prefer to listen to flattened music. The background noise from the car and road make it impossible to hear the subtle nuances. It really just depends on the situation. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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