I stumbled upon a VERY interesting article on how CDs are being mastered loudly nowadays as opposed to the CDs/LPs of yesteryear and they are in fact annoying the heck out of everyone.
Click here to read the article. If you’re not really into music, or the technicalities of music, you probably won’t find this article interesting. It’s a long read, but informative.
It did however, remind me of why I never wanted to convert my music to MP3s. It makes everything bland. I think I’m going to start using my CD player again. In fact, I have found that if I have a new album I prefer to listen to it on the CD player in my car rather than my iPod. There’s just something better to it.
iplaying: Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
2 replies on “The Loudness of CDs”
To anyone who thinks the music is too loud you do have a volume control for a reason.
As for the blandness of mp3’s. If your not worried about space and you rip the cd audio in a high enough quality instead of ripping it at a lower quality the music does not come out bland.
Mike
Yes, Mike! The higher you sample the music the less quality is lost when it is ripped! The best sound is the original CD or DVD, but you can get good MP3s at 128K bits or higher, but as Mike puts it the better the sound the bigger the file!