"Lord Hasenpfeffer" wrote in message
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Along the way, the industry decided that using the noise floor as the
reference for the loudness of a recording was not the best idea.

Why not? Were others besides me calling them too often on the phone to
voice their complaints?

Why not? When CDs hit the market, there was a fear that they would be too
loud and damage speakers and equipment (remember the Telarc 1812 Overture
with "digital canons'?). So, they chose to go with lower peaks and not lose
any sound in the noise floor. Later, someone decided that philisophy was
bunk since everyone had better speakers and electronics now. Once a few CDs
came out with peaks at 0dBFS, every was forced to follow suit or sound
quieter. This was also the same period when they started re-issuing older
CDs as remastered.


Also, I recently purchased some "remastered" CDs where they have not
attempted to replicate the original sound the artists and producers got.
Instead they have used different effect processors and added serious
compression to make the classic music sound similar to the current
trendy
crap.

Namely? I'm interested in knowing if I too have some of these
"remasters" so that I might be better able to conduct a few more Joe Keg
sound experiments.

I won't say which CDs, as I do not want to taint anybody's enjoyment of the
music.

Kinda makes you wonder now if all the "collector's edition vinyl" that's
still being pressed these days are all mastered "with emphasis" from
masters originally intended for making CDs.

Modern LPs are a niche market and the master tapes are very carefully
produced specifically for the LP transfer. With all the signal processing
available today, thee LPs sound amazingly better than the old ones.

- FLINT