I thought that one was very apt as I had just turned 13๐
She had a wild one on her hands๐๐
She had a wild one on her hands๐๐
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? lโll 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.
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Here you go Carp. Read and weep.....๐๐ https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/do-you-have-a-defining-musical-moment-from-your-early-years?h... |
Believe it or not that was one of the very first of 4 records I ever owned! Buried way back in threads from quite a while ago I told the story of my mother buying me a record player for my 13th birthday. Along with 4 singles. 2525 was one of those 4. Nope I don't get sentimental and nope I don't still have them ... Lol. |
Really do not know what else I have to offer on this n80 unless you start digging into the conspiracy theory which I am not at that level yet...lol. I can tell you though that my Motorola droid phone does NOT have enough power to drive my iem to the point of too loud for myself. I tend to use a Dragonfly Black in between it and the phones to give a healthy boost in both volume and SQ. |
Just the way I see it is that most portable playback devices are so low on power that they need all the help they can get for the end user to play it loud. Hence the over compression and loudness boost/ leveling whatever you prefer to describe it as. The quiet passages just get lost on phone/ earbuds so they boost it up, reduce the dynamics range so it all sounds nearly the same level. WE KNOW it's wrong but to the average consumer it works for them. |
Over compressed music is just about a requirement for any music to sound acceptable to the masses on the near universal phone and earbuds setup. Us audiophools comprise a tiny segment of the customer base and we are not the ones who are downloading songs and paying for said downloads to our iPod or whatever similar piece of gear. Now streaming at a fixed cost per month has changed the landscape a bit as to what service they use but not really the way they listen. Perfect example is my daughter who has a more than acceptable rig in her room but 95% of the time she is listening via YouTube on her phone and air Bud's. How do you overcome that? |