Music from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war (which is a pity, since there's been a lot of good music in the last ten years!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
>Music from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war
It really depends on who you're listening to. For example, this LP and ones like it will reduce you to tears of joy on expensive headphones, and as you can see from the waveform nobody is telling amon tobin how to compress his tunes:
And also the incredibly over-mastered bass in the last 15 years.
I believe it started because people wanted their car stereo to sound like their home CD, so sound engineers started to over-emphasise the bass, to bias it for radio, which led to a vicious circle.
I can't listen to anything post 2000 on my very good home sound system because the bass is so over-emphasised.
Maybe so, but I the point the parent comment was making was that the difference was in recording quality (especially since the parent comment referred to the quality of recordings up to 90 years old).
