"The Death of High Fidelity"


Just received the new issue of Rolling Stone in the mail today. It has an interesting article: "The Death of High Fidelity." It deals with dynamic sound compression, reducing "the difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a song". Various sound engineers and producers weigh in on the subject. It's worth picking up a copy.
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Chilling account of the morbid trend. Makes me rub my face, but at the same time appreciate those diamond in the rough recordings (and me gear), that much more.
The truth is more than 75% of my collection results in such an ear bleeding sound I vacillate between selling it all and going hog wild on the next upgrade path. I don't care what flavor of the month cables or "dark" equipment is in the chain...Flat sound is flat sound is flat... boring....annoying....irritating sound.
Thank you loudness war and thank you producers that cultivate this...a big compressed shout out to y'all.