Loudness war?

Against the modern culture of pumping up the volume (catchword: "loudness war"), there still exist a number of CDs that are very good regarding the dynamic and the sound. A very well roundup of songs from various artists is the "Manger-Hörtest-CD".

For example Track 15 of this CD, powerfull percussion-sounds:





many jumps of dynamic ("many peaks").


To show you what bad dynamics means Gwen Stefanis "The Sweet Escape":





Without doubts: constant noisy pabulum.


This video shows exactly how the music engineers kill the music:




In the end an german article, that represents the second problem of music-lovers.

So long,
FloGatt