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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
Unfortunately it's safe to say that a lot of what's recorded today isn't decent because engineers compress and limit the living daylights out of the dynamic range in recordings to optimise the way they sound on portable music players.
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Also sorry for going OT, but this is interesting.
The loudness war.
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This phenomenon can be observed in many areas of the music industry, particularly broadcasting and albums released on CD and DVD. In the case of CDs, the war stems from artists' and producers' desires to create CDs that sound as loud as possible or louder than CDs from competing artists or recording labels.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ