It sounds like wishful thinking, but this is what Alan Silverman, a renown mastering engineer said not so long ago.
He claims that up until the mid-nineties we lived with 60dB dynamic range and distortion well below 1%.
Since then, with the loudness war, the average dynamic range has dropped to...
...and I am astonished* by the sound! So I thought I would share the experience...
The musicians are alive, they have presence, and the instruments are real, they have size, weight, highs and lows... and the music sounds right - complete and coherent and widely dynamic.
On a side note, there is...