krymise

I had a philosophy professor who taught Existentialism, and he told us the story of how he almost froze to death while hiking . How he started to hallucinate that death himself had come to take him away. Eventually, he said he became calm and accepted his fate, and that freezing to death wasn't a bad way to go. Too bad he retired that semester, what an interesting guy.

That book is exactly what I thought of when reading the article. Everyday I learn something new that seems to unlock a section of that novel that was previously opaque.

That's just the way music is mastered these days, a great article on this stuff is here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm

But the debate between vinyl and cds is completely separate from the debate on loudness.