"Scott Gardner" wrote in message


Evidently, the FCC has a part in this as well. They limit the peak
levels that radio stations can put out, so radio stations actually use
on-the-fly compressors to raise the RMS level of the music without
exceeding the FCC limits on the peaks. Pretty interesting stuff.

All the FCC is doing is requiring radio stations to keep their broadcasts
within the frequency band that they are licensed to use, and within the
power limits they are licensed to use. This seems perfectly reasonable.

The bad guys are the radio stations that are willing to do just about
anything to appear to be louder than anybody else to their listeners.