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Jim Lesurf wrote:

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In article , Jim Lesurf
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I do also have various versions of some other material, so may widen
this comparison when I get a chance. I'd suspect this sort of thing
had happened as the results do sound as you'd expect, but until now I
hadn't bothered to actually collect solid evidence that demonstrates
it quite clearly. Maybe this will make an article... :-)

Other examples can be found he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Thanks very much for the above. The page is very interesting. It, and the
references it gives, seem depressingly consistent with what I've found in
my own recent tests thus far. In particular, that this because a serious
problem during the late 1980's and early 1990's. However I am not yet sure
I agree with all the comments made, so will reflect further on some of
them.

I found the reference on the 'death of dynamic range' particularly worrying
as it shows evidence that the problem *is* sometimes clipping, not just
excessive level compression. Does anyone know who the orginal author was,
as the page says they don't know?

The "kevtronics" email address might be Kevin Tekel, who seems to have
been active on broadcasting forums.

The weird thing is that it is all so utterly needless. I think I now
understand why some people have been searching out older issues of LPs or
CDs in preference to 'remastered' versions.

The trick is navigating between the poles of a modern squashed and
brightened transfer and an older sometimes incompetent or poorly sourced
transfer.

Stephen