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I just found this article on Wikipedia, describing what's going on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Now. I'm on the hunt for more early CD-releases.
It seems like a good idea.

Thank yo ...

No, I actually liked the song.

It wasn't until I saw it played in Media Player, with visual effects turned on [Curves], that I saw it hitting the roof.
I ripped it with EAC [lossless wave] into Au ...

Remy.
When extremism is normal, then normal would be quite extreme.

BobRogers.
Of course this ol' CD has been through a million dollar set-up.
I wouldn't be surprised if the engineers involved, ...

Hiding under a stone, I guess.

Is that the norm now ? Holy c***
That's really bad.

Playing this material on the TV-set, on a ghettoblaster and from the speaker on a cellphone, one cannot hear h ...

Dear mastering folks.

I've read some time ago, about too loud audio mastering on CD's.

½ an hour ago I took my chances and had a look on Destiny's Child "Bootylicious".
I'm stunned. Shocked

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Dear Remy

Thank you so much for your comprehensive response.
It was just what I was looking for.

Kindest regards
Brian

I guess toenails have a flavour too.

No problem. I deserved that.
But better stand out, being a fool to begin with, than standing in the dark alley forever.

Okay.

I think I need to learn a bit more about EQ.

Google left me with these link:

http://home.flash.net/~mrltapes/equaliz.html
http://home.flash.net/~mrltapes/mcknight_freq-resp-of-mag-reco ...

Yes, that's true.

EQ is different at the different speeds.
Perhaps that's the main cause of the slight lift in the high area.
Like the days, when recording a CrO2 cassettetape and playing it at " ...

Yesterday I came up with this idea of taking digital audio, expand it to twice the duration (equals half-speed), still keeping it at 16bit-44KHz and record this halfspeed material onto a Revox B77-mkI ...