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Old March 8th 06, 07:45 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Don Pearce
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Default "Remastered" CDs - the truth

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:41:01 +0000, Glenn Richards
wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:

Radio is the problem - the record producers figure that as you are
hopping through the channels, you will stop on the one that is the
loudest. A ridiculous concept, but it is what drives the music
industry right now.


Except the track that I posted the visualisations of was recorded in
1981, before such nonsense existed.

Looks like the rot started in the early 90s (the first remaster was
1994), and by last year any sense of dynamics were lost in brick-wall
limiting...


Errr..... exactly.

d

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