On 08-Feb-11 2:28 AM, Charles Haynes 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.
True. But what is the contradiction here? Perceived loudness is a function of how often there are peaks that hit the maximum level, and compression makes this happen more often than would otherwise be the case. > THAT is the travesty. They're losing detail and subtlety to people who > are too lazy to adjust the volume on their listening device. Sounds like you're in violent agreement. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
