Are you referring to the audio expander plugin from astound sound? The
owner was on home theater geek podcast. It looks interesting but mildly
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Do you mean something like a DBX unit that were "popular" in the early
'80's?
IMO they were unacceptable, and "expanded" dynamic range by making
quiet passages quieter...by clamping them down to nothing.Not
always a bad thing for noisy cassette tapes, and LPs, but they also had
the side effec
I'm wondering what experiences people may have had employing an audio
expander on their home audio systems. To me, live music in a
performance setting is immediately recognizable as such, sight unseen,
for the lack of compression, I suspect. Recordings are almost always
compressed to some degree