In Reply to: Not my experience with classical music, though. posted by jsm on July 12, 2007 at 11:41:24:
Compare recent classical remasterings (particularly the ones reissued by Universal as "complete sets") with their 80s counterparts.
the more recent remasters not only sound hotter, but when you rip them onto a computer and compare the waveforms with the original releases, you can clearly see the peaks chopped off on the remasters.
Of course, there are still very good new classical releases that appear to be only minimally compressed, but distressingly the loudness war has made it's presence here as well as for pop and jazz.
Of course, subtle and moderate use of compression actually can create an impression of a better sounding recording. That could explain why modern recordings tend to sound better.
For my own recordings, I tend to compress around 6dB prior to burning onto CD. This seems to benefit most systems (very few systems are truly able to reproduce the full dynamic range of an uncompressed recording without distortion).
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Follow Ups
- Not my experience - Christine Tham 01:15:49 07/13/07 (26)
- That's not what I'm talking about. - jsm 12:32:15 07/14/07 (2)
- You are contradicting yourself - Christine Tham 17:15:52 07/14/07 (1)
- OK, I must be more careful! Why did I bother in the first place? - jsm 10:50:53 07/15/07 (0)
- Can you give some examples - BobH 08:24:22 07/13/07 (0)
- Correct on all points, Christine, but compression has been a fact - sgb 06:01:23 07/13/07 (21)
- Don't trust everything you read on this forum - Christine Tham 20:46:52 07/13/07 (14)
- Actually, I trust very little of what I read on this forum, Christine, but - sgb 15:29:44 07/16/07 (0)
- RE: Don't trust everything you read on this forum - vahe@flash.net 10:33:17 07/14/07 (2)
- Don't get confused between SPL and dynamic range - Christine Tham 17:12:27 07/14/07 (0)
- Conifer Records' EDR Redbook CDs - BarneyT 16:57:15 07/14/07 (0)
- RE: Another reason to support DSD - Dr. S 23:08:26 07/13/07 (5)
- Not necessarily - Christine Tham 00:35:15 07/14/07 (4)
- RE: Not unless you really abuse the upper limit - Dr. S 08:17:52 07/14/07 (3)
- Actually, our friend graemme says otherwise - Christine Tham 17:29:28 07/14/07 (2)
- RE: Actually, our friend graemme says otherwise - graemme 23:00:46 07/26/07 (0)
- RE: I learned something today, Illegal signals ... who would have thought? (NT) - Dr. S 18:56:52 07/14/07 (0)
- Question - Robert C. Lang 21:39:44 07/13/07 (3)
- RE: Question - Christine Tham 00:27:36 07/14/07 (2)
- RE: This is absolutely the case ... and it would be - Dr. S 08:19:34 07/14/07 (1)
- Exactly. nt - sgb 15:35:25 07/16/07 (0)
- Power to the people - Robert C. Lang 16:52:13 07/13/07 (0)
- RE: Absolutely - Dr. S 13:26:10 07/13/07 (3)
- RE: Absolutely - vahe@flash.net 18:09:31 07/13/07 (2)
- And for good reason, Vahe - sgb 15:45:47 07/16/07 (0)
- RE: I think audiophile agendas are legion ... - Dr. S 21:06:59 07/13/07 (0)
- RE: Correct on all points, Christine, but compression has been a fact - vahe@flash.net 12:01:38 07/13/07 (0)