You truly are clueless.

What you have with "normalize" is a compressor and expander in addition to
normalizing.

It really is unbelievable that you won't go read what the terms, clipping,
compression, expansion, dynamic range and amplitude actually mean.

While your little god "normalize" may be doing a wonderful job of smashing
or extending all your music into your preferred range of amplitude, it
doesn't mean it is appropriate or desirable to everyone, particularly the
engineer who mastered the CD in the first place.

There is a reason they call it art and not musak.

I'd be quite pleased if you'd go spray this sacrilege on the
www.homerecording.com BBS. There are some folks around that really do know
exactly what normalize does.

Cheers,
Pete

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In this corner...

Pink Floyd, "Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973)
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Ultradisc II ... "ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING"

And in this corner...

Pink Floyd, "Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973)
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Ultradisc II ... "ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING"
Simply "normalized" to -10dBFS by Lord Hasenpfeffer (Whoopeee!)

What??? No clipping???
What??? No compression???
What??? No added distortion???
What??? Dramatically *extended* dynamic range???
What... were they smoking?!?!?!

No way!!!

Way!!!

Game over,

Myke

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