Classic rock: best remasters

According to the official dynamic range data base a great deal of the reissues of classic rock recordings are aggressively compressed.

Assuming for a moment that reissues are intended by the record companies to actually make money, not to sell to audiophiles, reissues will be more and more dynamically compressed so they can up the level. This way the sound is more appealing, I.e., louder, to those folks with earphones and iPods, things of that nature.

Mapman, nobody is saying dynamic range is the only audio parameter worth mentionng, but if it ain't dynamic I ain't interested. I can listen to the radio if I want to listen to dynamically compressed music. The last two Stones albums and the last couple Dylan albums are excellent examples, falling way into the RED on the dynamic range data base. As I said, kids love the compressed stuff, it's nice and loud. ;-)

Mapman, see what happens when you don't do your homework? The official dynamic range data base provides three (3) dynamic range numbers per album (which are relative numbers for purposes of the data base) - lowest number, average number and highest number. Besides that information it's the overall undeniable conclusion one scan easily see in the data - that the life has been slowly squeezed out of the music going back to at least twenty years ago. Hel-loo!