it’s all downhill from here: music quality being replaced with loud noise

July 31st, 2007 | by Chris Mendes

To make it easier for you to hear your music on crappy stereo players, the record industry has been continuously increasing the volume of the songs you purchase. Thank goodness, at least now I can hear all those low beats, right? WRONG, well technically right, but you lose the high beats. As anyone who has ever worked in video editing, sound editing, or anything else weird A/V (audio/video) geeks do on their spare time will tell you, as you increase the sound of a whole song all the medium sound level beats become high beats and the high beats stay as high beats. In effect, this diminishes the quality of the song as the original song was recorded.

Jump to see a video that shows us what the record labels have been doing for years and an easier explanation of why it is a bad thing.

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