Music marketers: tear down this wall of sound

IEEE Spectrum has a wonderful article describing how a marketing war among record companies has compressed the music we hear today far beyond what the music from recordings 20 years ago. The bottom line: even today's "lossless" CD formats have thrown away vast amounts of music dynamic range that used to be present on vinyl recordings. Personally, I find that comforting -- I thought it was just my ears were getting old (which they are).

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