Maybe the engineers of today have suffered hearing loss but for what its worth I too enjoyed Notorious and my favorite Duran Duran was Big.
Duran Duran plumb new lows in Volume Wars
I have to vent some steam! This volume war thing is becoming absurd. I've been buying Duran CD's for many years (no comments please!), and their latest "Red Carpet Massacre" must be as close to the loudest a CD can get.
I listen to most of my CD's with the volume set at about the 10 o'clock position. Not only did I have to dive for the remote and drop it back to about the 8 o'clock position to save my hearing, but there is obvious distortion throughout the CD, including much of the drums and some terrible distortion on the vocals on track 5. I doubt it's deliberate (an effect), I think it's just a perfect example of mastering engineers wrecking a great digital medium.
There, I feel a bit better now.
I listen to most of my CD's with the volume set at about the 10 o'clock position. Not only did I have to dive for the remote and drop it back to about the 8 o'clock position to save my hearing, but there is obvious distortion throughout the CD, including much of the drums and some terrible distortion on the vocals on track 5. I doubt it's deliberate (an effect), I think it's just a perfect example of mastering engineers wrecking a great digital medium.
There, I feel a bit better now.