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Re: [ARSCLIST] CD writing speed



Mike, isn't part of the problem here that much opera and classical broadcast in this country are on low-power/lower-frequency NPR stations, which may need to use level-compression to assure decent reception in most of their listening area? Anyway, we're probably pretty far off-ARSC here, unless there's a contengient here who archive airchecks!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD writing speed



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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