Ever get physically
tired of listening to an album before it plays all the way through, even though you ostensibly like the band and its music? An ongoing trend in the digital remastering of pop music has placed pressure on sound engineers to increasingly
compress the dynamic range, and thus make everything sound uniformly louder, as described in
this article. I'd never heard of this practice, but it explains why TV commercials sound so loud, and could be a reason why many people espouse vinyl as sounding better than modern CDs. This escalation of compression has been termed the "
loudness war."
Ever get physically tired of listening to an album before it plays all the way through, even though you ostensibly like the band and its music? An ongoing trend in the digital remastering of pop music has placed pressure on sound engineers to increasingly compress the dynamic range, and thus make everything sound uniformly louder, as described in this article. I'd never heard of this practice, but it explains why TV commercials sound so loud, and could be a reason why many people espouse vinyl as sounding better than modern CDs. This escalation of compression has been termed the "loudness war."
