In article , Robert Orban
wrote:

This trend is a real mystery to me. In the good ol' days, dialog
intelligibility was the #1 goal in motion picture and television
sound.

It's the Pro-Tools "process it because you can" syndrome. Just as in
musical tuning and timing adjustments, the average person using (not to
mention creating) the tools has an oversimplified concept of how
everything works.

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