Many are already familiar with this trend...in a nutshell, when modern music is mastered, they compress the sound into a far more limited range so that it sounds "louder", but less accurate and less dynamic than the songs of yesteryear. It really sucks when you have a great audio setup and you don't get the sound out of it that you would with CDs mastered in the 80s.


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity

Great post Dana. I hate not being able to "listen" to music anymore. This whole thing is one reason I'll buy an old copy of an old cd rather than a remastered copy. I have first hand experience with this whole thing too. When my last band was in the studio recording, after each run thru the song, we'd go into either the control room or the listening room and listen to what we just did, and make a judgement on it from there. The original takes were awesome. I have a couple of the original sessions on CD somewhere. Then, the bozo went and mixed it...then it sounded like absolute shit.

That sucks.

Any chance you could upload the "before" and "after" versions so we can see the direct effects of it?

Lemme see if I can find everything and I shall.

Cool

I wonder if this is true. It doesnt make sense that one would have to do this. I have a pretty amazing setup here at my house, probably the best I have ever heard. I use two Adam A7 speakers for my directs, and two old Dynaco A-25's for the mid fill and sound stage. I use an old Sansui amp to power the Dynaco's. I also have a Klipsch 10in powered sub to round out the bottom end. All I can say is the sound stage is magical. All the music I listen too is always is lossless format, and I have not noticed a degradation in quality as of yet.