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In Reply to: Re: no that's not right posted by Todd Krieger on June 15, 2006 at 15:11:00:
The perceived dynamic range of RBCD extends far beyond anything I ever heard from vinyl records or even analog magnetic tape. This is only evident in some classical music where some parts are so soft you can barely hear them while others are so loud they are deafening. Analog recordings such as cassette tapes in portable and car players never needed additional compression by users but unless one were built into my car's player or my Sony discman, some of my discs would be unlistenable under most conditions. Just the wind noise and engine noise in my car would overwhelm the softer passages. I think many inexperienced audiophiles mistake expanded dynamics for compressed dynamics. This is because on much music, when you set gain to a suitable level for listening to the loudest musical passages, the average loudness becomes softer. With recordings of this type of music, for the first time the ambient noise of even a fairly quiet house becomes an interfering nuissance. Most other types of music do not require much if any compression for either medium, and compression is still used on pop recordings for commercial purposes such as fitting within the broadcast limitations the FCC imposes for FM modulation. It's just one more example of most people having far more experience listening to recordings and conditioned to like them than listening to live music and finding reproduction closer to the real thing surprising and less acceptable.
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