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Re:The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse by tfh on Monday January 04, 2010 @06:24AM (#1030165)
Some of the last metallica album sounded really bad because of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regard...

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Re:The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse by dazzawazza on Monday January 04, 2010 @06:27AM (#1030167)
As a long standing heavy metal fan I can tell you that all of the album sounded pretty bad and the compression was the least of their worries :)

It just goes to show that even VERY rich and VERY powerful bands are making a basic mistake of not listening to their masters before turning on the presses.

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