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Old 4th September 2008   #97
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Originally Posted by Freq18Hz View Post
This whole volume war thing is incredibly ********.

The only reason there has ever been a push to loudness, is to overcome noise introduced by lower quality amplifiers, when boosting volume.

The louder your source, the less the amp has to work. Period.

Lets just end this whole discussion right here, as most modern amps, have ample gain to make even softer tracks sound great.



-Freq
I appreciate where you're coming from but signal to noise ratios are not even close to why artists and record labels have wanted their records louder than their "competitors" since the dawn of time. Good amps won't end the discussion and it's not the discussion that needs ending [although that would be nice too].
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