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Originally Posted by UnderTow  The thing that amazes me is that people prefer having a product at this level of loudness despite the, to my ears, obvious clipping. |
This is a total (and quite alarming) downfal of a basic musical aesthetic sense. If it goes on like this, after a short time there will be no difference between such a record and the sound of a power saw ...
People tend to completely forget that there is a volume knob on their players. If they want a louder sound, they can just turn it ... The present "custom" and competitive levels of extreme overcompression and overlimiting are degrading music to a kind of distorted squashed noise with no aesthetics, dynamics, contrast and emotions.