Yes, this is something a growing number of music fans are showing increasing concern with.
Perhaps if the headphone enthusiasts lend their voice against this deplorable practice then something might eventually happen to rescue us.
It's quite telling that hardly any of the mainstream audio reviewers are going out on a limb against the use of dynamic compression.
How can this be so when they appear to seem to be advocating the best possible sound quality?
Could it be that they are really very little more than equipment shills, whoring their column inches carefully as to not offend their paymasters?
The nerdy pen pushing eunuch
advertising wing of an industry trying to keep its head above water whilst in the middle of some strange global changing of the guards experiment?
For sure, audio playback might be small potatoes in comparison to what's happening elsewhere, but for anyone with any interest in music, surely life-like dynamic range is up there with things to be concerned about?
Ok, the artists themselves want to sell more product, make more money, and that often means making it sound comparitively louder, and that's fair enough.
Therefore it's up to us, the consumers, to refuse to buy any more music that has had its dynamics deliberately reduced.
It's not good, and it's not High Fidelity.
"Now, you see this one-eyed midget shouting the word "Now"
And you say, "For what reason?" and he says, "How"
And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back, "You're a cow!Give me some milk or else go home"
And you know something's happening but you don't know what it isDo you, Mr. Jones?"
Perhaps if the headphone enthusiasts lend their voice against this deplorable practice then something might eventually happen to rescue us.
It's quite telling that hardly any of the mainstream audio reviewers are going out on a limb against the use of dynamic compression.
How can this be so when they appear to seem to be advocating the best possible sound quality?
Could it be that they are really very little more than equipment shills, whoring their column inches carefully as to not offend their paymasters?
The nerdy pen pushing eunuch
advertising wing of an industry trying to keep its head above water whilst in the middle of some strange global changing of the guards experiment?
For sure, audio playback might be small potatoes in comparison to what's happening elsewhere, but for anyone with any interest in music, surely life-like dynamic range is up there with things to be concerned about?
Ok, the artists themselves want to sell more product, make more money, and that often means making it sound comparitively louder, and that's fair enough.
Therefore it's up to us, the consumers, to refuse to buy any more music that has had its dynamics deliberately reduced.
It's not good, and it's not High Fidelity.
"Now, you see this one-eyed midget shouting the word "Now"
And you say, "For what reason?" and he says, "How"
And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back, "You're a cow!Give me some milk or else go home"
And you know something's happening but you don't know what it isDo you, Mr. Jones?"