Teemu Torma wrote:

The argument has been whether increasing amplitude in the digital input is a
good thing, not whether louder sounds good.

Actually, my argument seems to have been munged into being a continual
defense of my preferential use of the Linux application named "normalize".

It is the amplifier that makes the loudness to happen.

You score two points!

Limiting or even worse, clipping, the high peaks by increasing
the volume makes more harm than the slight amount of added noise
by doing the reverse.

Point taken.

I have never seen even a "quiet" remaster (in pop/rock arena)

Nor have I.

to not have it's peaks at very close to 0dBFS.

Correct. And while many "older CDs" remain unavailable in digitally
remastered form, it is very sweet to at least be able to elevate the
loudnesses of older, quieter and, therefore, lackluster sounding
pop/rock CDs into the general range of more modern, remastered CDs.
While this obviously does not improve the fidelity of the original
recording, it certainly makes them much more of a pleasure to hear with
my computer.

I honestly believe that if a record label wanted to do it, it could
simply re-issue "normalized" versions of the CDs in its catalog, slap a
"Newly digitally remastered!" sticker on their wrappers and sell 'em to
a loud-hungry public - and, again, there would be dancing in the street.

Perception is everything.

Myke

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