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loudness warnoun
The practice of music industry to produce louder versions of recorded music by mastering albums to such an extent that it distorts their sound quality.
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Loudness war
The loudness war or loudness race is a pejorative term for the apparent competition to master and release recordings with increasing loudness. The phenomenon was first reported with respect to mastering practices for 7" singles. The maximum peak level of analog recordings such as these is limited by varying specifications of electronic equipment along the chain from source to listener, including vinyl record and cassette players. With the advent of the Compact Disc, music is encoded to a digital format with a clearly defined maximum peak amplitude. Once the maximum amplitude of a CD is reached, loudness can be increased still further through signal processing techniques such as dynamic range compression and equalization. Engineers can apply an increasingly high ratio of compression to a recording until it more frequently peaks at the maximum amplitude. In extreme cases, clipping and other audible distortion is introduced to increase loudness further. Modern recordings that use extreme dynamic range compression and other measures to increase loudness therefore sacrifice sound quality to loudness. The competitive escalation of loudness has led music fans and members of the musical press to refer to the affected albums as "victims of the loudness war".
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of loudness war in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of loudness war in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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