How Science Got Sound Wrong

You can control the loudness with the volume knob. But there’s nothing you can do about dynamic range. It is what it is. By the way, it’s not a trade off. There is no advantage to overly compressing dynamic range during remastering other than being able to increase level on the CD. It’s for the iPod and iPhone generation. You know, the folks who buy most of this stuff. Hel-loo!

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

Thus spoke  Debbie Downer. 

You can’t handle the truth. 

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?