{"id":651,"date":"2009-02-21T22:07:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-10-11T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T04:49:45","slug":"the-loudness-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"The Loudness War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I sent this to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netbug.net\/\">Netbug<\/a> a while ago, and thought that maybe he&#8217;d do a whole blog post thing on it, since it seems like it would be up his alley, but maybe my MSN wasn&#8217;t working right at work that day or something&#8230; Anyway&#8230; It seems that modern CDs have been reducing the dynamic range to make the overall track seem louder, which lessens the overall experience since there&#8217;s less highs and lows (less kick to the drums, etc). This has been termed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loudness_war\">the loudness war<\/a>&#8220;. Anyway, I thought it made for an interesting read, and also made me wonder if that&#8217;s the reason why some audiophiles have such a fondness for vinyl: nothing to do with digitization or the &#8220;authenticity&#8221; of scratches and pops, but just that tracks mastered for vinyl had better dynamic ranges so the music had more soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I sent this to Netbug a while ago, and thought that maybe he&#8217;d do a whole blog post thing on it, since it seems like it would be up his alley, but maybe my MSN wasn&#8217;t working right at work that day or something&#8230; Anyway&#8230; It seems that modern CDs have been reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}