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Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible
Hey! I found it! Or something similar. . .
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/07/pull_out_a_viny.html
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From: cburke55@comcast.net (Christophe)
> Interestingly enough there was a short article in Wired some time back
>that
> talked about the excessive use of compression, which evidently appeals
>to
> broadcasters, making every recording as hot as possible so it "jumps"
>out of
> the radio dial orgrabs the scanner's attention. By way of illustration,
>They
> showed diagrams of three different sound spectra - one an old AC-CD
>recording,
> which had lots of dynamics and headroom, then I think Celine Dion and
>Slayer or
> Megadeath or someone, and the sound prints would make you think that
>Celine was
> blasting away at the same levels as the rockers with the same lack of
>dynamics.