[geoff]

On 10/10/2015 2:45 p.m., wrote:
(Joel, continued):

OTOH, all of the tracks on this this 2004 "remaster" of The
Stranger appear to have been dynamically compressed and
or peak-limited:
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/94338

The sound is strained and edgy, and lacks
the emotional cues of the original CD in my previous post.


Peaks touching 0dBFS (for one sample) has nothing to do with 'loudness',
dynamic range, or "strained harsh sound", but you've finally grasped
that, haven't you ?u.

Actually 0dBFS peaks can cause problems on many DAs, but backing off
half a dB should fix that. But not those symptoms you meantion.

geoff