Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)
by ShadowBanThis01 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:58AM
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For sure, radio stations always compressed in order to sound "stronger" on the dial. Just another reason that compressing the actual recording was unnecessary.
Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)
by tech2 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:53AM
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Right, and because radio stations do that I'd wondered whether marketing choose to "make it sound like radio" so people don't complain when they buy the disc
Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)
by ShadowBanThis01 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:06PM
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Not out of the question. When I was a little kid I'd buy 45s and notice this difference. I asked for an equalizer for Christmas, thinking this was the issue.
But of course it wasn't, and before long I realized that I liked the sound of the records better.
I believe _this_ is where the issue mostly originated (well, radio, really). Radio is already massively compressed, and many people were either listening to things in the car, on some tiny little radio in the kitchen, or with awful cheap headphones with their walkman's built-in radio.
All of these weren't great environments to start with, and the dynamic range of radio was tiny given the overall bandwidth available to most FM stations.
So, companies compress, people get used to it, and thus the horror continues.