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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Any idea why they are trying to make CD's louder? Every device I have listened to a CD on, has either a magic spinny knob thing or buttons that make the volume go up or down.
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Because to the average music consumer listening on average consumer gear, louder is perceived as 'better.' That was the reason, IIRC.
And the increased dynamic range compression, needed to fit the louder music into CD format, was not usually a problem for this group because we want to hear the soft passages as distinctly as the loud passages, while running on the treadmill, over the ambient noise, without riding the volume control, so, hey, even better.