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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.
guitarsam
cleeds
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Normalization has nothing at all to do with this. A recording with very limited dynamic range will sound "louder" than one with a wide dynamic range. It will sound that way even when "normalized" because its average volume is higher.

If you’re on a noisy subway, its easy for quiet passages on a wide DR recording to get lost beneath the ambient noise level of the subway car. Whether that signal was normalized or not has absolutely no bearing on it.

Do you think AC/DC tends to sound louder than a string quartet?
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uberwaltz
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The quiet passages just get lost on phone/ earbuds so they boost it up, reduce the dynamics range so it all sounds nearly the same level.

WE KNOW it's wrong but to the average consumer it works for them.
From way back when in this thread..........
guitarsam OP
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Sam here and the hypersonic effect is a proven fact and you can run your own test like i did and prove it to yourself. Why did the big pharmaceutical companies spend millions on bogus university research studies claiming they could not reproduce the hypersonic effect in there own independent test and to this very day if you do a google search you will find one negative story after another. Why would big pharma care about a little research paper published out of japan in 1999 involving music to the point where 20 years later there still publishing negative storys about the hypersonic effect? perhaps they no something they don't want us to know?
guitarsam OP
179 posts
 
Same here and the bottom line is i can encode digital audio with various frequencies i have collected and dramatically change the sound of the audio to the point where i can even surpase vinyl proving that my earth frequency encoding technic is the real deal and when other people have tested my technic they have proven it to themeselves.
glupson
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"If you’re on a noisy subway, its easy for quiet passages on a wide DR recording to get lost beneath the ambient noise level of the subway car."

I am as lost as n80, just maybe in different ways. If compressing makes quiet passages easier to hear, what is the disadvantage? Better to ask, what is the advantage of not being able to hear quieter passages in uncompressed material?


I tried a few of the recordings from that gospel people like to reference (DR database on the Internet) and which seems iffy at its accuracy to me, Some of those with allegedly narrow dynamic range sound horrible to me while some of the others sound just fine, again to me. Can it be that complaints about the sound are more due to something else than to the dynamic range? Could some other step in the production, or fashionable sound, be responsible?

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