Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible

[cburke55@comcast.net (Christophe)]

Hey!  I found it! Or something similar. . .

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/07/pull_out_a_viny.html
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From: cburke55@comcast.net (Christophe)
> Interestingly enough there was a short article in Wired some time back 
>that 
> talked about the excessive use of compression, which evidently appeals 
>to 
> broadcasters, making every recording as hot as possible so it  "jumps" 
>out of 
> the radio dial orgrabs the scanner's attention.  By way of illustration, 
>They 
> showed diagrams of three different sound spectra - one an old AC-CD 
>recording, 
> which had lots of dynamics and headroom, then I think Celine Dion and 
>Slayer or 
> Megadeath or someone, and the sound prints would make you think that 
>Celine was 
> blasting away at the same levels as the rockers with the same lack of 
>dynamics.