This might shed some light on the issue. Excerpt from "Everything New Sucks" --Ken Rockwell. The Music Sucks part is near the bottom.
Music Sucks Well, not really, but CD and music audio quality has been going downhill since about 1995 when CDs went mainstream. When introduced in 1983, CDs were perfect copies of studio masters. That's great, especially when CDs were cut from masters intended to go to CD, not from older master tapes created for LPs. As CDs became popular, producers (not musicians) started pushing mastering engineers to make CDs louder, which means making the softer parts too loud. In tech speak, this is called dynamic compression and peak limiting. By cutting back the loud peaks, and bringing up the soft sections and the spaces in-between notes, the overall level can be increased so that everything is 100% loud..... Full article: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/everything-sucks.htm -- jlr_aet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jlr_aet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89107 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
