Overcompression ruins music
Music keeps getting louder and louder and an article at IEEE Spectrum explains why this is not a good thing. While getting louder, music recordings have been losing dynamic range. The article illustrates with some graphs of waveforms and says:
When the dynamic range of a song is heavily reduced for the sake of achieving loudness, the sound becomes analogous to someone constantly shouting everything he or she says. Not only is all impact lost, but the constant level of the sound is fatiguing to the ear.
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