How Science Got Sound Wrong

Lack of dynamic range automatically makes the music $hitty.

Nonsense. Sometimes dynamic range manipulation is the only way to capture it to the media.

"You can control the loudness with the volume knob. But there’s nothing you can do about dynamic range."

So, what is it? Loudness War or Dynamic Range War?

Unless the compression takes into account equal loudness contours to target a more idealized playback at typical volume levels. The dynamic range database does not consider spectrum.

geoffkait18,721 posts12-05-2019 5:00pmThere is no advantage to overly compressing dynamic range during remastering other than being able to increase level on the CD.

Lack of dynamic range automatically makes the music $hitty. The good gnus 🐃 🐃 🐃 is most systems don’t have an excess of dynamic range anyway.

ruraltraumasurgeon
These arguments are mostly specious, as was the original article that was referenced. Most neurons exhibit graded spikes - few exhibit fixed amplitude. An optimal example is three-dimensional auditory space in the mesencephalon which contains "incidence detector neurons." Also - human listeners compensate for a range of auditory incongruities - we are not digital as has been suggested. The medial orbitofrontal cortex is the site in the human brain where the highest level of auditory processing occurs, including compensation.

>>>>>>Is there any compensation for translating that paragraph?