Dave Plowman (News) said:
In article ,
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.

Expectations, yes. "Pop" is to be listened to on a tinny little tranny,
"classical" is to be listened to in the concert hall.

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