Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer?

It is a feature I have seen recently in AV receivers and perhaps processors, but it wasn't labelled loudness. It is all done digitally of course. With many people having all digital systems, it does not make sense in the analog domain. At low listening levels, even digitized vinyl would be hard to argue against versus the alternative (not loudness compensation).

wolf,

I would have one advocacy for measurement. Every few years, someone brings up the very good, but 0 traction idea of playback calibration, usually including reference tones and reference playback level so that the user can listen at the volume level intended to achieve the most accurate playback as intended.

I am with you twoleftears,

What is really funny, is the people, companies, etc. that eschew this so called "purism" are the first to say Vinyl is the the very best consumer audio format (ignore R-R). What is vinyl? ... it's a minimum of two equalizers, or two compressor/decompressors depending on your view with a variable frequency channel mixer, and a host of other "analog" effects. It is about as far from "pure" as you can get. It takes some serious cognitive dissonance to believe that is pure, but a loudness or equalizer is not.  Some of this is a side effect of believing things not true, like being able to detect small phase differences, etc.

It's almost like the low-fat craze. Never really was any evidence for it, but people blinded believed it, followed it, and got less and less healthy. At least with the THD wars we found out early it was not the be all and end all.