Re: [ARSCLIST] CD writing speed

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> Mike, I dig your page on the death of dynamics!
>
> http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm
>
> this paper, co-written by Bob Orban (who certainly should know a thing 
> or three about FM radio audio processing), shows the falacies of 
> "toothpaste" super-compression.
> http://www.omniaaudio.com/tech/mastering.pdf
>
> However, I believe the trend is probably permanent in this country 
> because so much of the "target audience" for what passes for popular 
> music today do most of their listening in loud environments with 
> earbuds, so toothpaste compression is actually a big benefit for them, 
> and for their future hearing aid manufacturer.
>
> Any half-decent audio editor now includes "cruch" and "maximize" tools. 
> So any fool with a PC can squash any digital audio file to their heart's 
> content.

Thanks for the note and for the link. In some broadcasts offered by many 
sources, one can easily hear the different sorts of compression 
provided. As an opera aficianado, I have just about given up on U.S. 
broadcast and webcast of the Met; there are clean European sources, 
particularly on FM, which make the stations here sound variously bad and 
incomprehensible. The effect is that many voices become unrecognizable 
or show non-existent faults due to the excessive processing.

Mike
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