In article , Iain Churches
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Do you? based on what?

because no one has ever asked them.

The fact that people are not aware of the market research and have
not been approached themselves, does not mean that the research has
not been done, and that other people have not been asked in
significant numbers:-)

I notice you included the word "the" in front of market research, as
though there was some, yet you appear not to be aware of any.

So far as I can tell, Iain is simply feeling that said 'research'
*must* exist. i.e. a matter of faith on his part.

Yes That is correct. Otherwise, I cannot see why on earth anyone should
spend hours and many hundreds of pounds working on a perfectly good
studio master to make it "louder" in a specialised and very expensive
suite set up expressly for that purpose.

Your viewpoint is quite understandable, being based on the assumption that
people who present as 'experts' must think rationally, etc.

The snag is that from the outcome and the lack of any external sign of this
'evidence' I doubt your faith in them is well founded. They may well
beleive they are right, but may simply be wrong to do so. They may either
have little or no reliable evicence, or are simply drawing incorrect
conclusions from it.

To tell, we would need the evidence, not just their belief, or your belief
in them.


This seems to be a storm in a teacup, which is only of interest to a
couple of people on an inconsequential UK newsgroup.

That's odd. I seem to recall it being an issue on a number of websites and
in various magazines. And more than one person making a fuss about it.
Indeed, I think a few years ago one of the speakers at a Uk 'music awards'
ceremony complaining about the obsession with mindless compression and
loudness.

The situation seems unlikely to change, and so there seems to be little
point in discussing it ad nauseam.

I agree. Whenever we do discuss this you simply repeat your articles of
faith. Which gets us no-where. :-)

However the point I was making was that there may be ways past this problem
by giving the public a *choice*. Then we could get some evidence, and the
situation might change - at least by giving people genuinely different
options to choose as an individual.

Simply ignoring the question will, I agree, be likely to mean it will
become a self-fulfilling prophecy that it "seems unlikely to change". No
doubt this would suit those in the biz who present themselves as gurus and
make a living out of being able to apply 'magic compression to boost sales'
and who have secret wisdom the rest of us mere mortals are not allowed to
share - but we are lead to believe must exist. :-)

Twas ever thus with voodoo priests and other members of the tribe of
wizards and wearers of Big Hats. ;-

Slainte,

Jim

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