Kinda like stopping at The Olive Garden and complaining about the Italian cuisine. What can we expect from pop recordings? 99.999% of listeners need the volume boost to let them know the "music" is playing. All of pop culture today is one long, loud noise with no substance. Not even anything interesting buried in the noise, but it's what youth want (and expect) today. Oh yeah...don't forget to vote for Obama, kids! He's got energy!!!
Duran Duran plumb new lows in Volume Wars
I have to vent some steam! This volume war thing is becoming absurd. I've been buying Duran CD's for many years (no comments please!), and their latest "Red Carpet Massacre" must be as close to the loudest a CD can get.
I listen to most of my CD's with the volume set at about the 10 o'clock position. Not only did I have to dive for the remote and drop it back to about the 8 o'clock position to save my hearing, but there is obvious distortion throughout the CD, including much of the drums and some terrible distortion on the vocals on track 5. I doubt it's deliberate (an effect), I think it's just a perfect example of mastering engineers wrecking a great digital medium.
There, I feel a bit better now.
I listen to most of my CD's with the volume set at about the 10 o'clock position. Not only did I have to dive for the remote and drop it back to about the 8 o'clock position to save my hearing, but there is obvious distortion throughout the CD, including much of the drums and some terrible distortion on the vocals on track 5. I doubt it's deliberate (an effect), I think it's just a perfect example of mastering engineers wrecking a great digital medium.
There, I feel a bit better now.
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