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tony sayer wrote:


It often has to be so, a lot of radio is listened to under far less than
ideal conditions where a wide dynamic range would be waste and no
bugger would hear it.

To some extent the pop/rock obsession with level compression goes
hand-in-hand with their wish for LOUDNESS. Hearing curves tend to also
compress at high levels. So to a fair extent, banded level compression has
a result similar to winding up the level of less-compressed pop/rock.
Mimics being able to get a higher level from cheap replay systems.

In some ways a modern equivalent to balancing everything to make the best
of being played on a Dansette or a tiny speaker.

Jim

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