Is remastered mainly just less jitter?

kalali
It looks like the older the recording the higher the dynamic range. Just scrolling through the chart, regardless of the artist, the lossless CDs from late 80’s and 90’s all have consistently higher DR. This is completely the opposite of the common wisdom. Anyone else noticed this or am I just misreading the numbers?

uh, that’s kind of the whole point. The industry has become more and more aggressive in compressing dynamic range in favor of loudness. This all starting about 20 years ago. Check out the more recent recordings in the past few years, LP, SACD, CD, even downloads. The trend is not your friend. You’ll notice many of the recent releases are all in the red. Hel-loo!

kalali
It looks like the older the recording the higher the dynamic range. Just scrolling through the chart, regardless of the artist, the lossless CDs from late 80's and 90's all have consistently higher DR. This is completely the opposite of the common wisdom. Anyone else noticed this or am I just misreading the numbers?



geoffkait

kalali
It looks like the older the recording the higher the dynamic range. Just scrolling through the chart, regardless of the artist, the lossless CDs from late 80’s and 90’s all have consistently higher DR. This is completely the opposite of the common wisdom. Anyone else noticed this or am I just misreading the numbers?

uh, that’s kind of the whole point. The industry has become more and more aggressive in compressing dynamic range in favor of loudness. This all starting about 20 years ago. Check out the more recent recordings in the past few years, LP, SACD, CD, even downloads. The trend is not your friend. You’ll notice many of the recent releases are all in the red. Hel-loo!

You guys only just find that out?

https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1408833


Cheers George

George, your reading comprehension is lagging a bit.

It looks like the older the recording the higher the dynamic range

Just inferring this is what I said in my first post, and gave the DR website for everyone to check.

Cheers George

georgehifi
2,430 posts
04-23-2017 7:11pm
It looks like the older the recording the higher the dynamic range

Just inferring this is what I said in my first post, and gave the DR website for everyone to check.

Correction to your original post: it’s not that they’re recorded at a higher volume, it’s that they’re re-mastered at a higher volume (and lower dynamic range). That’s why many original LPs and CDs have relatively high dynamic range whereas their *reissues* have relatively lower dynamic range, in fact lower and lower as time goes on. But it’s still the same recording, often with high dynamic range originally. The loudness wars apparently didn’t have much impact on audio cassettes, they were probably being phased out about the time loudness became ubiquitous. I always look for and admire the cassettes labeled HiDR, I.e., high dynamic range.