tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131957440381098047.post497440795712573029..comments2018-01-03T20:24:34.583+01:00Comments on Øyvind Kvålsvoll: Why Vinyl Sounds BetterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15829124437761779916noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131957440381098047.post-89974883653228004122016-02-14T09:40:02.494+01:002016-02-14T09:40:02.494+01:00It's all so sad. We have the technology today ...It's all so sad. We have the technology today to playback music in higher fidelity than ever before. It can be conveniently selected and streamed from servers anywhere in your house, which can hold virtually all the music you ever want to listen to. And in all this, the record companies continually make the decision to throw out the dynamics in the recordings just to make the music perceived as 'loud'. I just don't get it. Here's my hope that a "normalize" switch becomes the default setting on any piece of audio equipment (especially in the car and mp3 players), and the record companies can concentrate on what should be their main concern, putting out the best possibly quality of the recordings, with dynamics intact. People who care about their dynamics can then simply switch off the "normalize" switch and have the digital music as intended (although in a perfect world, probably the normalization would just work well if the input material already came with a large dynamic range).<br /><br />I just hate the idea, i.e. the "audiophile" way of getting the best sounding music should be ripping it from vinyl to wav/flac. Dammit, giving us the best possible sounding digital format is the job of the music industry, it's the only way of getting as close to the music after mixing as possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534604516116433616noreply@blogger.com