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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
most remastered stuff cuts off the high end and the low end of whatever sounds it is boosting. the actual loudness to softness of the dynamics is not the issue . it is the inability to maintain the crisp high end and the rich low end when one re-masters something and pushes the levels all up to 11
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Remastering does not affect the frequency range, it is all the dynamic range that is affected, this however can give the appearance that the frequency range has been affected. Normalisation increases the whole level of a sound source until that sources loudest peak hits the normalisation threshold, this does not affect dynamics musically, it does however raise the noise floor. All the problems discussed in this thread are due to what is called brick wall limiting and this does affect the actual dynamics of the music and can and does on ocassions become incredibly destructive.
Hmmm let me think.... ok... say you have a hydrolic lift in a room with an incredibly solid roof 10 foot above this, and a series of different height plynths. You move the floor up two feet and the top of the highest plynth sits touching the ceiling. Now, move the floor up 2 feet again, that highest plynth is now being squashed, but what is happening to the lower plynths?, the tops of the lower plynths are now getting closer to the tops of the highest plynths making them look very similar in volume.
This is where brick wall limiting starts decreasing the dynamics of the music and the dynamics of the audio for sheer volume. i am with Glice, if you want good listening experiences you really need to find good classical recordings.