How Science Got Sound Wrong

And some people think The Flintstones is a documentary.

" 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. 🥵 "
  OK how do you reverse such a thing, if it can be done? Have you tried Audacity? For my purposes it does seem to make things better most of the time.

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

I dunno that’s what I heard ...?....

And btw for those keeping score....the quote was...

literally billions and billions

Like what happened to literally, and where did the extra billions come from, its the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth eh. ....no cheap cherry picking or misquoting please, think of the children for heaven’s sake.

And for the love of gawd have you not heard of artistic licence, I mean what’s a poet to do without artistic licence.

Mahlman
It’s aggressivedynamic range compression I’m referring to. You know, the suffocation of the music. 🥵
OK how do you reverse such a thing, if it can be done? Have you tried Audacity? For my purposes it does seem to make things better most of the time.

>>>>>I don’t think it can be reversed. The best thing would be to stop doing it. But since they probably won’t stop it - it’s actually gotten much worse - I obtain CDs issued prior to the start of the Loudness Wars, mid-late 1990s. I also consult the Dynamic Range Database if I’m debating buying a more recent issue.