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Are the loudness wars fake so record companies can destroy the music?

Sam here and if the music industry have implimented EBU R 128 for loudness normalisation how come the volume on most digital remastered albums leaving the studio is set to "11" lf the listening volume will be the same across the board for streaming services why bother? l’ll tell you why. By lowering the overall volume after the fact does not repair the damage that has already been done! The goal here is to destroy the sound quality of the music and it makes no difference what side your on because the end result is still the same the album is unlistenable. l remember listening to music before the digital age and you not only heard the music you felt it.Well nothing has changed only now you hear the music and feel pain? Draw your own conclusions friends.
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uberwaltz
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I thought that one was very apt as I had just turned 13😁

She had a wild one on her hands😇😇
glupson
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"I think it would be really something if you kept them and toted them around with you from home to home!"
Not to steal thoughts, but I do that with some of my singles from when I was three years old. And albums from teenage years. And the turntable. To make it more ridiculous, I barely ever listen to records and never to those.
n80
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I still have Toshiba receiver I had in high school. And it doesn't even work. Its just too pretty to throw away.
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thecarpathian
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Well, get that thing worked on, n80!
I bet playing it again will bring a wonderful feeling of nostalgia....
buckhorn_cortez
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By definition, the hypersonic effect is above 20 kHz. Most digital music is limited to 1/2 the Nyquist frequency digital sample rate of 44.1 kHz or an audio reproduction of 22.05 kHz.

This frequency slightly exceeds the maximum high frequency available on a tape recording machine - which all studios used to record albums prior to the introduction of CD’s and digital recording. The only way to get MORE than 20 kHz on an LP record was through the direct-to-disk-process which was not regularly used. Rather than a deep record company / big pharma conspiracy, I’d say the record companies are or were simply working within the limitations of standard recording technology.

I know...not nearly as fear inducing as the big pharma / recording company conspiracy, but the limitations of the tape recording / digital sampling rate does fit Occam’s Razor far better than an involved conspiracy of two unrelated business enterprises conspiring to remove hypersonic frequencies for some undefined benefit to them.

However, dynamic range is a completely different subject that has nothing to do with the maximum high frequency available on a specific recording.
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