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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
russashe
46 posts
 
WHY WOULD THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ACTIVELY SEEK THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUND QUALITY OF MUSIC???!!!


I think a fairer question might be would the music industry limit the absolute quality of sound in order to make that same sound APPEAR to be of higher quality to the bulk of listeners who use compromised devices and supposedly make up most of the purchases?  Might get a different answer.  They could probably find a better but less 'cost-effective' way to do the same thing.  If they cared.

bsimpson
167 posts
 
Once upon a time, people listened to music while they sit still and focused.

The creation of portable playback (walkman, for example) started the killing process in mid/late '80s.

The nails on the coffin: Individual song download, and, wireless blue tooth ear buds.

Nowadays, barely anybody listen to music without mostly distracted by something else (web browsing, flashy music videos, Kindle, you name it).

Seriously, when is the last time you would sit still and listen to the music only?

I have seen many audiophiles - and they are among the worst: They consistently would not even let the song to finish before hopping to another song or started talking over the music.  

Why would anybody in the music industry care, if the buying customers don't seem to care?

prof
3,468 posts
 

Never go full conspiritard.
n80
2,116 posts
 
I usually only go half conspiritard. I have a theory that they want you to go full on. So I never do.
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