Tips for a Personal Music Archive

[Andrew McNabb]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:45:20AM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> 
> Ironically, those people who won't tolerate this kind of garbage do
> tolerate the horrible mixing and volume levels of any recent recording.
>  Even vocal and orchestrated music is recorded this way nowadays.  It's
> horrible.  The subtle nuances of the quieter tones are all drown out by
> the volume compression.  Even on a basic CD we have 20 bits to mess with
> yet all the studios make the sound as loud as they can, reducing the
> amount of useful sound levels.  Instead of pristine, 20-bit sound, it's
> often all packed into the upper 4 bits (amplitude-wise). Why they do
> this is beyond me. My stereo is perfectly capable of expanding and
> amplifying the signal.

If it's a home stereo, I feel the same way.  However, in my car, I would
prefer to listen to flattened music.  The background noise from the car
and road make it impossible to hear the subtle nuances.  It really just
depends on the situation.


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Andrew McNabb
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