Interesting article on modern sound quality.
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Interesting article alex, but I can't say I'd noticed the volume increase, mainly because I don't have any store-bought CDs in my collection.
Back in early CD days I didn't have a CDP and was still using cassettes, then, along came the mp3 and some useful software/hardware. All my CDs are homemade so I haven't got a reference for comparison. I have noticed that some of my CDs are quieter/louder than others despite having used the same prog to burn all of them, but hadn't made that association between earlier productions as opposed to more recent. I'll be listening with that in mind now to see if I can notice a trend.
As most burning progs incorporate automatic sound level adjustment (so useful for those compilation CDs) I wonder if the production sound level would still come through at the exaggerated volume of the commercially produced disks?
Back in early CD days I didn't have a CDP and was still using cassettes, then, along came the mp3 and some useful software/hardware. All my CDs are homemade so I haven't got a reference for comparison. I have noticed that some of my CDs are quieter/louder than others despite having used the same prog to burn all of them, but hadn't made that association between earlier productions as opposed to more recent. I'll be listening with that in mind now to see if I can notice a trend.
As most burning progs incorporate automatic sound level adjustment (so useful for those compilation CDs) I wonder if the production sound level would still come through at the exaggerated volume of the commercially produced disks?
Depends on how the program does its levelling and whether the mp3 you download is the same master as the production CD. If the master is the same and the burning program is just searching for max level and then setting that max relative to the absolute max a CD can handle then you should end up with something very similar, if not identical to the commercial CD. I do my levelling myself so I can be sure that whatever program I'm using isn't throwing in any compression or anything else.
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As far a I know (which often isn't very much! 
), the leveling ("Normalizing") in programs such as Nero, etc. will murder your recordings with compression. Tried it, found it very unsatisfying, except for mixed cds for the car.
), the leveling ("Normalizing") in programs such as Nero, etc. will murder your recordings with compression. Tried it, found it very unsatisfying, except for mixed cds for the car.
From the article link above, in the comments section:
Funny, I'd expect 'em to be quite similar.
Funny, I'd expect 'em to be quite similar.
From the article link above, in the comments section:
Funny, I'd expect 'em to be quite similar.
:lmao::lmao::lmao:
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