"...Loud CDs use 'hypercompression' - not data compression but audio compression in the digital realm, which is at first interesting but eventually tedious to listen to...."
I remember volunteering at an NPR-affiliate station in South Dakota twenty years ago, and I convinced the powers-that-be to drastically reduce the amount of audio compression on their FM music broadcasts. Most of those broadcasts consisted of "classical" orchestral music (along with piano solo and string/piano chamber music, etc.), which often contain extremes in recorded volume levels (very quiet vs. very loud). But the compression was awful, it would always kick-in right after the beginning of a loud passage, squelching the music, and would conversely suddenly bring up the volume of a quiet passage. This would distort the flow of the music, making it sound bizarre and artificial.
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