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RE: "I'm not sure what the situation is with BIS"

I never adjust the volume control while listening to a recording of classical music.Once I note the volume control setting that is appropriate for a particular album I just dial that in. Indeed, when getting a new album from an unfamiliar record label, after the first few notes sound and I make an initial volume adjustment I look at the volume control setting and I know whether the recording was butchered to accommodate inferior equipment. BIS does not do this.

It is possible to make a recording louder by limiting the peaks. Then it is possible for the engineers to "turn up" the volume so that the limited peaks just fit on the disk. This is how inferior recordings are made. This allows inferior equipment to play these recordings without running into distortion at the loud settings while keeping the quiet portions loud enough to hear. When you play one of these compressed recordings you do not hear what the artists played. Fortunately, most classical record labels use only a little volume compression and the better quality ones don't use any. The situation is completely different with pop music, where all musical dynamics are removed in the interest of making the playback loud.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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