"Lord Hasenpfeffer" wrote in message
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.... I just don't see anything wrong with taking
more willful advantage of the larger range for amplitudes that CDs make
available. If it's really only a matter of turning it up or turning it
down, and you're not doing anything that harms the original dynamics,
and the range is right there waiting for you to use it - I say, by all
means, do.

You are not taking advantage of anything. You are not improving the sound.
All you are doing it turning up the volume. If you weren't also compressing
these songs as MP3s, I would deride you fro adding distortion in the proces
of "normalizing" the signal. ALL DIGITAL PROCESSING IS IN NATURE
DESTRUCTIVE.

Well, yeah, I guess they did deliver on their promise to provide me with
an approximately "ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING", so to speak - but even
with the noise floor being used as their peak reference level, they
still had plenty of opportunity to make better use of all that available
range - and didn't for no apparent reason.

They made full use of the dynamic range. There is nothing missing from their
CD. Every single sound that was on the original master tapes is on that CD.
All the quiet stuff and all the loud stuff. It was not compressed or
limited. It was not hindered in any way while producing the CD. They only
chose not to push the peaks to 0dBFS.


Could they have still been "excuseable" from an industrial perspective
if they'd used an even quieter signal which ultimately forced me to have
to turn it up to damn near eleven?

It doesn't matter how high you turn up your amp. If you like listening to
music at a certain level, then turn it up until the music is as loud as you
want it. There will be no more distortion than with the later release of the
CD.

I hope it could be good for a lot more people than just me, though, too.

You are adjusting the levels of MP3s so they are similar. If your goal was
to discuss this, then your subject line should have been "Normalizing audio
for consistent loudness". That is a different discussion and wouldn't have
gotten so many people ****ed off. This isn't about what is "better" or
"superior." This is about your preference that the music, whether new or
old, have a similar level when you make a mix collection.

- FLINT