>If the lower dynamic range tracks sound louder even after normalization then the normalization algorithm is flawed. That's not quite true. Listen to this: htt

>If the lower dynamic range tracks sound louder even after normalization then the normalization algorithm is flawed. That's not quite true. Listen to this: https://soundcloud.com/amp-33/sets/uncompressed-vs-compressed https://soundcloud.com/amp-33/sets/uncompressed-vs-compresse... Those two things have a pretty similar loudness(A-weighted RMS) and yet the compressed one sounds louder than the measured difference - ~3dB A-weighted which is not obvious to perceive untrained. As a test - download them both, amplify the Uncompressed one at -2.7dB and listen to them again. They have the same A-weighted RMS yet the Uncompressed one sounds louder. A-weighting - http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/a/w/aweighting/source.html http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/a/w/aweighting/so... RMS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square Measurements done with Audacity, wave stats: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=248505#p248505 http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=248505#p248505 edit:to add the quote