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by kevin_thibedeau1 days ago |
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upvoteby Slow_Hand1 days ago|
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And who, exactly, would approve that misguided proposal?

I suspect you’re not involved in contemporary record making. Like it or not, clipping is a technique and a color that producers, mixers, and mastering engineers all choose to impart for aesthetic and technical reasons. It has it’s uses.

If your proposal were passed all that would be left for consideration would be a handful lame DSD jazz records from those hi-fi enthusiasts who are disconnected from the reality around how most records are made these days.

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upvoteby breezybottom8 hours ago|
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You might find it lame, but jazz has the highest share of physical media sales in the US

https://www.statista.com/chart/32863/genres-with-the-highest...

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upvoteby aidenn02 hours ago|
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I don't know which genre they would divide the Blues into, but whenever I discover a new (to me) blues group, I really struggle to find CDs for them.
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upvoteby kevin_thibedeau1 days ago|
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RIAA is a standards body.
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upvoteby mc321 days ago|
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I thought that due to physical limits of the media that mfgs would avoid this temptation -looks like I’m way off.
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upvoteby kevin_thibedeau1 days ago|
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Everybody is lazy nowadays and sends their ruined digital mixes out for everything. It's the production teams that need to fix their behavior.

What RIAA should do is promote universal use of ReplayGain across digital distribution platforms. That way people can manage relative volume as desired without the need to corrupt the audio. They could make money with a signed tag certifying the mix meets quality standards.

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upvoteby mrob1 days ago|
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The modern equivalent of ReplayGain, EBU R 128, is already ubiquitous in the industry. People brickwall records anyway, presumably because more people are likely to complain about being unable to hear the quiet parts in their car, or about their phone speaker not being able to play it loud enough, than about the whole thing sounding squashed.

The ideal solution would be to distribute high dynamic range audio with metadata to configure optional playback-time dynamic range compression for noisy listening environments or weak playback equipment.

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upvoteby Melatonic23 hours ago|
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Agreed

Or make a sound format (like video containers) that could have two separate mixes of a track.

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