loudness wars: digital recording to improve?

If the recording is botched and dynamic peaks compressed or clipped in the recording, no algorithm will fix it properly.

Algorithms can change what is there but not put back information that is lost in the first place, a least not with complete accuracy.

Sorry.

All these algorithms do is allow the average listener to listen to a mix of different recordings with different overall loudness levels on a server at more of a consistent volume without having to adjust volume as much. Not sure it will do much more than that for audiophiles.

Another good point is that the recording industry has allowed its legal distractions to take their eye off the target in regards to quality product in many cases.

I suppose that their argument is that there is not much money to be made in making high quality recordings available to the public these days because most people care about cost first and quality second with these things.

"Sad, but True" I suspect. That seems to be how things in general work these days.

Unsound,

Most likely the results of applying corrective algorithms should be better, but not likely as effective as fixing this data quality issue at the source.

Audiophiles tend to care about these kinds of details more than most which is why I am skeptical of the benefit to that cranky bunch.

Heck, a lot of audiophiles will never accept digital even if done right, much less if botched and corrected somewhat after the fact.

In a sense everything recorded is "manipulated" in some way.

What matters I suppose is whether or not the customers like the results.

"Error correction, on the other hand, changes nothing between the original data and the data played back, and so is inappropriate for discussion in context of sonic quality. "

Agreed.