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Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article ,
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.

Never quite understood the fashion for making everything as loud as
possible. Does anyone have replay equipment where it is turned up full -
so it would actually be louder?

I well remember when demos started coming in on DAT rather than cassette.
There was some need to keep the level up on cassette to beat the inherent
background noise - but 'they' did exactly the same on DAT, often to the
point of clipping.

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