Good news for the audio world

[Douglas Blake]

YouTube

Are the loudness wars finally winding down?

 

[wiseoldtech]

I hope so!
Perhaps nice 35 watt subwoofers in car trunks will be the next fad.
Something that doesn't shake my windows when those fools drive by.

 

[Galu]

Very interesting Douglas, I know now why my ears start to whistle when listening to recent CDs. All the buried distortion due to limiting is to blame and I thought it was just down to my advancing years! Pity the presentation had to be rushed at the end, I wanted more! Glad I held on to my original Beatles LPs, but streaming has become of more of interest to me after watching the video.

 

[Douglas Blake]

Very interesting Douglas, I know now why my ears start to whistle when listening to recent CDs. All the buried distortion due to limiting is to blame and I thought it was just down to my advancing years! Pity the presentation had to be rushed at the end, I wanted more! Glad I held on to my original Beatles LPs, but streaming has become of more of interest to me after watching the video.

At the worst of it, several thousand recordings were made with 0 to 3 db of dynamic range. As the video shows, about 30% distortion... and people wonder why pop music gives them headaches.

 

[Douglas Blake]

There is actually PC software available that will let you normalize audio just like the streaming services do.

Loudness normalizer for music files ...MP3 Gain

And a plug in for movies AAC Gain

Follow the setup instructions and it works great ... but only does mp3, mp4 and AAC formats.