ralphpnj wrote: > I keep stating this over and over: the loudness war only exists on > popular music releases....
I'll have to mildly disagree. If the problem had never made it past American Idol, I wouldn't know of its existence. I've even found some classical records that suffer from the problem -- for example, I think the Emerson Quartet's Mendelssohn recordings and Olga Kern's Brahms Variations are too closely miked. The liner notes for the Emerson Quartet recordings point out that 14 mikes were used to record a string quartet! Plenty of modern jazz, folk and other recordings suffer from this issue, though perhaps not as glaringly as the material marketed to teenagers. I've worked a lot with Adobe Audition over the years and there is a good match between what one sees visually on a track and what one hears. More than once I've seen a modern drum track where there is absolute uniformity in the peak volume of drum strikes. In older recordings that type of track would have a natural variation in loudness that sounded less in-your-face and, well, more natural. Just like any other fad, popular trends end up affecting everything. The audio world is not immune from that behavior. It's just ironic that the more headroom our music formats give, the less that is used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97545 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
