Loudness race or loudness war

[Peter]

A topic for gathering loudness race articles/sites/...

http://shattered-room.net/index.php?topic=965.msg19993#msg19993
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/23/the-loudness-war/
http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/ = http://dynamicrange.de/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122228767729272339.html?mod=todays_us_page_one <- very good read
http://www.turnmeup.org/

[erik]

Thanks Peter, I will be doing some reading there. Hadn't really noticed it with Rush, but some time ago I heard Metallica's Death Magnetic at a friend's house who has a really good sound system and it sounded plain awful.