Brickwalled Music - The Loudness Wars - When Does It End?

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Why would streaming services "need" loudness wars? For what purpose? They are not selling you an album that sounds louder therefore better to most unsuspecting ears, they are selling you a subscription and you are welcome to listen to anything you want. Seems also counterproductive to offer Master, MQA and HIFI settings in Tidal for example if they want to stream compressed. It's just a matter of the recording studios readjusting to normalcy and get to work restoring dynamic range not kill it.

Keep in mind Tidal is a very small player in the streaming business. Spotify and Pandora are still the most popular, and sound quality and dynamic range are not on their radar.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Keep in mind Tidal is a very small player in the streaming business. Spotify and Pandora are still the most popular, and sound quality and dynamic range are not on their radar.

True. I think Tidal May push the others to follow in their steps. Competition is always good.