"ChrisCoaster" wrote in message
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MisteRogers asks: "Can you say 'excessive dynamic compression' ?"

I saw it somewhere - it escapes me - online a list of prominent CDs
produced since 1984, showing the title, artist, and average sound
level in Digital terms. Basically, album by album, the average level
crept closer to zero - the digital audio theoretical maximum never to

You can definitely graph it out. I have Rhapsody.com so I have a huge range
of old and new music to draw from. That's the only place I'd ever hear this
"new" music anyway so a lot of stuff I want to check out I throw in a
playlist with other stuff I'm listening too. There's practically no way to
set a speaker level that allows you hear every thing well (older stuff) and
not be blown across the room when the new stuff comes on. As soothing as
analog is it's even more so when one of those grating mixes finishes (and
not all the grating ones where done on digital) and it goes into something
like some old Frank Sinatra. Like salve to ears.