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GEEK ALERT:How 'bout the Era Of The 'Hot' CD?
Almost every goddamned fucking motherfucking CD/download since 2001 or so has been recorded 'hot' - or at the high end/over-the-red-line-of-the-spectrum. Meaning, everything is LOUD and IN YOUR FACE. It's a loudness race and it's a disgrace, as Bob Dylan said in '04.
Clicks, clipping, pops, tinniness, no seperation of highs and lows, or of instruments (so you can't tell if that's a sax or a guitar blaring through the speakers).
Basically, a loud wall of noise.
No wonder people are going back to LPs.
NOTE: The recent Beatles Re-Masters are loud but just under the red-line (12 dbs or lower). So they kind of 'split the differance'. So, an exception, as always, for the Beatles.
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