On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> > wrote:
>> THAT is the travesty. They're losing detail and subtlety to people who >> are too lazy to adjust the volume on their listening device. > The first time I heard someone talking about this, I thought, "More > audiophile silliness." But then I noticed that I tended to skip newer > music when in shuffle mode. I realised that I found newer music > fatiguing to listen to -- because they're often just a wall of sound. > I'm no audiophile -- my primary listening environment is my car, for > God's sake -- but even I find this trend irritating. Well you can "reverse" the effect using an expander, either an outboard box, or via digital processing during the extract or encode. The problem is that information has been lost. Simplistically if you're only using the top 8 bits to encode amplitude, you can't ever get 16 bits of signal back. -- Charles
