They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To

Re:They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To by tremon on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:00AM (#19113110)

But as the parent says, these can be applied after-the-fact (in most modern movie players it's called "night mode"). This doesn't mean the original recording has to be shipped with deteriorated sound.

In a way, loudness compression is like a hash function: the operation itself is largely mechanical, but destroys information in the process. Shipping with good-quality audio should be the default, and let compression be applied on playback. In fact, most home theatre systems already do sound post-processing in the form of room correction anyway (Audyssey, Dirac), so why not the let player do the compression?

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Re:They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To by baddox on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:56AM (#19116145)

I don’t disagree, although I wish movies would ship with a professional audio mix with lower dynamic range, since that would be a lot better than the often noticeable compression built into receivers and playback devices.

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