People like the sound of compressed music, or to put it another way, people don't like music that has quiet and loud passages. First things first, I’m referring to soft-to-loud dynamic range ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what ...

The fictional band Spinal Tap could make their instruments louder with the help of amplifiers that went up to 11. Lesser musicians must find other ways to pump up the volume. One well-established ...

In an age when Apple has become the top music retailer without selling a single physical disc, audio engineers are increasingly creating specially mastered versions of songs and albums designed to ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a ...

In portable audio, the music might be compressed, but the sales won’t be. Sales of MP3-type headset portables, including flash- and HDD-based models, will grow at double-digit rates, while sales of ...

There’s a rumor circulating, saying that compression ruins classical music. This idea is especially common among audiophiles and hardcore fans of classical music, who turn up their noses at the idea ...

Audio technology company Harman International today announced software that automatically analyzes and upgrades the audio quality of all types of compressed, digitized music to restore the sound as it ...

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing ...