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Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Pop music was always second to classical with regard to funding (elitism
etc...), hence why the Pop's reliance on dynamic range compression to
cope with limited bandwidth, and now an unfortunate addiction to using
it from the industry - even for CDs FFS.

Think it's more to do with the majority audience. In car listening - and
the little radio in the kitchen etc - are what perhaps most use to listen
to pop radio on. Hence those awful processors used on the output of many
radio stations which can make a mockery of the original recording.

Classical music can have a much wider dynamic range making it less
suitable for casual listening. Hence Classic FM etc, which chooses stuff
which is.

DAB was designed to get round this. That after 'recording' compression
could be controlled at your receiver. But sadly, don't think it was ever
implemented.

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