On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> Here's the answer - and it's yet another way the music cartel is screwing >> the fans, the musicians (and ultimately, themselves) by MAKING THE MUSIC TOO >> LOUD.
People saying this drives me nuts. Perhaps I'm being over picky but what they're really doing is over compressing the dynamic range. The maximum "loudness" for a given digital medium is fixed. To make music sound "louder" what they're really doing is keeping the loudest sounds fixed at the max and making the quieter parts "louder" - i.e. compressing the sound into the upper end and reducing the dynamic range. THAT is the travesty. They're losing detail and subtlety to people who are too lazy to adjust the volume on their listening device. -- Charles
