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Re: Question about "clipping" in some music
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said by ArthurS  :If you crank it up, your speakers won't like it, let alone your ears. Amazing what is passed as music these days!  I've been going through my music library recently, and I've found that I usually prefer the same song from an earlier-released CD than from more recent "best of" CDs. The newer CDs seem much louder, and become fatiguing to listen to.
I haven't really cared about audio until recently, and the more I read around the more bad news I hear about how "volume wars" value "loud" music over good audio quality. Which is a shame, because I can think of at least a few songs I would like a lot more if they weren't recorded so loudly. It makes them uncomfortable to listen to even when I turn my speakers down.
I'm not sure why they find it necessary to push audio to the point that it clips. For example, ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down" seems plenty loud to me, and opening it up in Audacity shows that it doesn't clip at any point. And its much more pleasant to listen to, because the audio sounds "punchy" without being obnoxious and annoying.
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