How Science Got Sound Wrong

wyoboy
I doubt he has any hearing left anyway--especially after all those sessions with Crazy Horse--i suppose i could cut him some slack and interpret his rants as being solely about compression of dynamic range in digital? Nah, even though i like his early work he’s still full of it...

>>>>Sadly Neil Young was onto the whole CD scam before dynamic range compression set in. But that probably didn’t help. Apparently there are people in this world who find CDs completely objectionable, you know, what with the thinness, shrillness, two dimensionality, and missing information.

Apparently there are people in this world who find CDs completely objectionable, you know, what with the thinness, shrillness, two dimensionality, and missing information.

Its people like that wot cause social unrest. Everybody knows it was, and while the buffalo roam, perfect as it was conceived and will remain so until the end of time. And there are absolutely irreducible math thingees and literally billions and billions of articles to prove that beyond any shadow of a doubt. To think otherwise is just plain luddite quackery. I mean who are you going to believe, the hard theoretic evidence or your lying ears.

Contrary to uninformed belief, dynamic compression started before CDs. CDs simply provided a vehicle, because of their lack of restrictions on whole album dynamic range, to make it even louder. Apparently there are people in this world who find vinyls lack of dynamic range, destruction of channel separation, equalization/de-equalization oddities, low SNR, and a host of other artifacts enjoyable.

>>>>Sadly Neil Young was onto the whole CD scam before dynamic range compression set in. But that probably didn’t help. Apparently there are people in this world who find CDs completely objectionable, you know, what with the thinness, shrillness, two dimensionality, and missing information.

atdavid, You appear to be blissfully ignorant of the Loudness Wars. But that’s OK, it’s a common newbie mistake. What I’m referring to isn’t simply dynamic range compression which a great many recordings have always exhibited to some degree. It’s aggressive dynamic range compression I’m referring to. You know, the suffocation of the music. 🥵

"...literally billions and billions of articles to prove that beyond any shadow of a doubt."

No doubt about it. Billions and billions and billions, in fact