In his comment to my previous post, Dennis points to an excellent example on YouTube. That and another example are so good, I wanted to post about them to make sure anyone who was interested in the last post sees these.

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There’s a great article in Rolling Stone about how music engineered for mp3 players sounds worse than that for previous media. The article, The Death of High Fidelity: In the age of MP3s, Sound Quality Is Worse Than Ever, by Robert Levine, explains how newly released music can be engineered for loudness rather than range of sound. As I was reading it, I was thinking of the latest album I downloaded from iTunes, Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Allison Krause, which sounds excellent to me. At the end of the article, Levine lists some examples of “Bad” albums noted for their loudness and “Good” albums noted for their depth and range and Raising Sand was on the good list. Nice to know I’m not deaf yet.