The Loudness Wars

[Gloom Midori Hikkuko]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/imperfect-sound-forever.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

What do people think about all this? Personally I think its dreadful. When I heard At War With the Mystics a while a go I thought it sounded like mud and I didnt like it. I guess the loudness war is the reason why.

B*starRAB.

 

[kim-chan]

I think it`s become much more noticable lately.
I don`t have a problem with the quality as such but it`s really irritating when you are listening to an old CD and then when that one enRAB and you play a more recent CD it`s about twice the volume.

 

[Badger G]

hehe yeah, although a lot of cd players now try n make up for it in one way or another. Usually not wothout a loss in quality though, which is somewhat annoying

 

[Stuart D]

Well there is a physical limit to what the ear can hear, there is also a limit to what the speakers can handle. Personally if you pop in a 20 year old CD then a new one the new one is louder.