Submitted by atalio on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 16:54 A number of internet sites are running stories on how the CD is becoming less dynamic (due to increased compression in the recording). If so, how prevalent is the practice? Yahoo tech article: Why New Music Doesn't Sound As Good As It Did Referenced blog: Loudness War Blog Rush (band), a historical loudness study: Over the Limit From a recording engineer's perspective: Whatever Happened to Dynamic Range on Compact Discs?
A number of internet sites are running stories on how the CD is becoming less dynamic (due to increased compression in the recording). If so, how prevalent is the practice?
Yahoo tech article: Why New Music Doesn't Sound As Good As It Did
Referenced blog: Loudness War Blog
Rush (band), a historical loudness study: Over the Limit
From a recording engineer's perspective: Whatever Happened to Dynamic Range on Compact Discs?