A great article for all you musos out there.
I’ve been toying with the notion of re-ripping my favourite albums to Apple’s lossless compression. Disk space is cheap these days, so it might be worth doing to retain some of the fidelity.
I noticed that the Barenaked Ladies albums get progressively louder over the years, and not just because they’re playing more electric guitars than they used to. Everything to Everyone is a lot louder than Gordon, for example. I have noticed Barenaked Ladies are Me/Men are both not quite so loud though.
The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
Subtlety is lost on people these days. If it’s not kicking you in the face, people don’t care.