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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness)

Post Subject: Even the Wall Street Journal recognizes there is a problem with recording engineers...Posted by scooter on: 10/20/2008

= Article Title
Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today's Music Is Too Loud!!!
They Can't Hear the Details, Say Devotees of Metallica; Laying Blame on iPods

= Wall St Journal

= September 25, 2008 (front page article)

"...Music released today typically has a dynamic range only a fourth to an eighth as wide as that of the 1990s. That means if you play a newly released CD right after one that's 15 years old, leaving the volume knob untouched, the new one is likely to sound four to eight times as loud. Many who've followed the controversy say "Death Magnetic" has one of the narrowest dynamic ranges ever on an album..."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122228767729272339.html

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