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No, he's talking about audio (sound) compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war This is one reason why
by chiph 10y ago
No, he's talking about audio (sound) compression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
This is one reason why I've stopped buying "Remastered" CDs - they almost always sound worse. Shop at Discogs.com where you can specify the release date, or buy from a quality-oriented label like mofi.com
- colejohnson66 10y agoThe key words are "almost always". While I haven't checked, I heard that Pink Floyd's remaster of "The Wall" and some of Led Zeplin's sound better because they focused on removing noise instead of making it louder.
- chiph 10y ago> The Wall Interestingly - I have that CD (2-disc set) from way back in 1984 when it was first released (on the Harvest label in Europe), and it sounds like rubbish. In the early days of CDs the labels were dumping any title they thought would sell onto poly-carbonate, and didn't care much about cleaning it up. There were stories of CDs that still had the RIAA equalization curve (from LPs) still on them. I'd love to get the Mobile Fidelity pressing, but they were a limited release and is now selling for over $200.
- enneff 10y agoI think the bad mastering of many early CDs is mostly because mastering engineers didn't know how to master CDs. They were still employing the same techniques they'd been using for vinyl, where they were hardly applicable. (I think that's where the RIAA curve thing comes from, which is unlikely to be literally true as the RIAA curve would remove almost all the bass from the recordings.)