I recently started buying off ITunes and either I am doing something wrong or 95% of everything I buy off ITunes (AAC) is mastered so loud its just a bunch of horrid clipping.
Why can they not just use the dynamic range properly?. This technique may sound wonderful on a tuner or 1 watt device with earphones or a cheap boom box but at 250W on a decently transparent system it literally hurts and also is a total waste of my money. Not to mention I just fried both my favourite DIY speakers that have lasted for years. Instead of the cones moving a lot, the recording is just noise, the cones just vibrate at high power attempting to replicate this noise and the cooling of the woofers doesn't work very well. (If you have music using the full dynamic range you get more movement between the quieter and loud components, and the cooling mechanism pumps more air). Its just my theory for now but I seriously think the way some tracks are mastered like this can cause hardware damage as above) I had two spare mid/woofers and when I unscrewed the blown units (Vifa 8") the magnets were so hot I couldn't touch them.
I thought something was wrong with my equipment and I even connected up the oscilloscope and checked input levels and bias values then I went through my 80's and 90's collection and suddenly its working.....
Are there any sources of current music that are not like this?
Why can they not just use the dynamic range properly?. This technique may sound wonderful on a tuner or 1 watt device with earphones or a cheap boom box but at 250W on a decently transparent system it literally hurts and also is a total waste of my money. Not to mention I just fried both my favourite DIY speakers that have lasted for years. Instead of the cones moving a lot, the recording is just noise, the cones just vibrate at high power attempting to replicate this noise and the cooling of the woofers doesn't work very well. (If you have music using the full dynamic range you get more movement between the quieter and loud components, and the cooling mechanism pumps more air). Its just my theory for now but I seriously think the way some tracks are mastered like this can cause hardware damage as above) I had two spare mid/woofers and when I unscrewed the blown units (Vifa 8") the magnets were so hot I couldn't touch them.
I thought something was wrong with my equipment and I even connected up the oscilloscope and checked input levels and bias values then I went through my 80's and 90's collection and suddenly its working.....
Are there any sources of current music that are not like this?
