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Dynamic Range Day - March 20th 2010 - online protest and awareness-raising about the CD "Loudness Wars"
Music is getting louder - and sounding worse.
Over the past 20 years, the recording and mastering of recorded music has been increasingly plagued by an industry-wide practice of making recordings as loud as possible, while crushing any dynamics contained in the original performance.
The result is music that sounds flat, two-dimensional, distorted, and is exhausting to listen to.
This self-defeating race to be "louder" than anyone else has become known as the Loudness Wars. You can read more about it at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war - or see an example at YouTube - .
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Dynamic Range Day - March 20th 2010 - online protest and awareness-raising about the CD "Loudness Wars"
Music is getting louder - and sounding worse.
Over the past 20 years, the recording and mastering of recorded music has been increasingly plagued by an industry-wide practice of making recordings as loud as possible, while crushing any dynamics contained in the original performance.
The result is music that sounds flat, two-dimensional, distorted, and is exhausting to listen to.
This self-defeating race to be "louder" than anyone else has become known as the Loudness Wars. You can read more about it at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war - or see an example at YouTube - .
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diss-cuss