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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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n80
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Carp, it was my primary component until just a couple of years ago when I got involved in hi-fi. It was the SA2500 which got great mid-fi reviews back in early 80's and contemporary reviews done decades later reviewed it well too. I used it almost continuously up until about 10 years ago when it went into my cabin in the country which means it sat unused (except on weekends) in temperatures that ranged anywhere from 98 to 20. And still worked well for a long time. Anyway........I digress.

buckhorn, I agree that conspiracy theories are off the mark here and I think Occam's Razor is an excellent principle with the exception of when it isn't.


And sometimes conspiracy theories exist because they are the most simple explanation, however wrong they might be.
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n80
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There is a very fine line between use, abuse and recreation. 
ebm
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This is stupid mr dude.
cd318
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@uberwaltz,

'Over compressed music is just about a requirement for any music to sound acceptable to the masses on the near universal phone and earbuds setup.
Us audiophools comprise a tiny segment of the customer base and we are not the ones who are downloading songs and paying for said downloads to our iPod or whatever similar piece of gear.'


@dougeyjones,

'There’s no conspiracy here, music is just not being mastered for Audiophiles anymore, if it ever was. It’s being mastered to sound as good as possible on the devices that 98% of the world listen on. Phones, tablets, laptops and earbuds.

Is it a sad state of affairs for audiophiles who love dynamic range? Definitely. Is it a conspiracy? Not at all.'


Yes, nothing to see here, no conspiracy.

They have never promised to give us good sound. If they do it's an accident, it won't happen again.

Their business is to sell music. We're not even 1% of their market, and they know we'll buy anyway, despite our complaints.


As for big pharma, well that's another story altogether.

I find it amazing (and slightly depressing) that after decades and decades of research and untold billions spent doing it, that the single biggest ever medicinal breakthrough only happened to come by through sheer accident.

In his own words:

"One sometimes finds, what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did."

— Alexander Fleming

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
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