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Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible
Quoting Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>:
> The reality is that humans like 'loud'.
Reality has many facets. In my experience that spans over 35 years of
paid (professional) music-making, the first thing people will complain
about is music that is too loud for their liking.
> Back in the day Jensen sold more car speakers than anyone because they
> were 'louder' on the display wall than the other options.
I worked at an electronic retail store during the Jenson days. Jenson
speakers had a good reputation and people generally asked for them by
name without even listening to the store display. I don't recall ever
getting a return on a Jenson product.
> Loudness is only the scapegoat du jour... past 'culprits' have included
> EQ, effects, distortion, transistors, digital recording, EMGs, MP3s,
> "the internets", saddam, osama, etc...
I think it is an important topic du jour. Excessive SPL can cause
permanent damage to one's hearing. Excessive SPL is not a new issue,
of course -- however the hardware compressors of old weren't like the
software multi-band compressors with virtually unlimited compression
in every frequency band.