Prog rock and the loudness war

SandCastleVirtue wrote: For those of you who are not familiar with what the "loudness war" is, check out this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ I'm finding that almost every new release I discover is suffering from the same problem. More and more prog releases are sounding like complete crap and it's very hard to listen to an album in one sitting - the best way to listen to prog albums in my opinion. I'm not an audiophile, but this has gotten to a point where the volume is completely brickwalled and everything sounds terrible, through both decent speakers/headphones and cheaper ones.

You must be listening to crap.

If it's too loud you might just have it turned up too loud.

Edited by Slartibartfast - October 22 2011 at 20:32

Horizons wrote: I honestly can't think of an example. GfD has great dynamics and never gave me the impression of poor sound production in terms of volume.

I dunno...  I was listening to something recently, Grace for Drowning I think, and I went from quite to loud so abruptly it almost blew my ears out of my head!

For those of you who are not familiar with what the "loudness war" is, check out this short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

I'm finding that almost every new release I discover is suffering from the same problem. More and more prog releases are sounding like complete crap and it's very hard to listen to an album in one sitting - the best way to listen to prog albums in my opinion. I'm not an audiophile, but this has gotten to a point where the volume is completely brickwalled and everything sounds terrible, through both decent speakers/headphones and cheaper ones.


Edited by SandCastleVirtue - October 22 2011 at 18:33