Should producers and consumers get blamed for making Metallica Death Magnetic album too loud?

September 30, 2008

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No, it’s the the fault of the iPod or any other digital player. It’s the fault of the producers & the consumers. I imediately noticed the lossy characteristics of MP3s, etc. But compensated for that with higher quality compression methods. What I don’t understand are the people who say iTunes makes them wonder why they would ever need to buy another CD/LP. Almost everything I buy I buy on CD. I only buy singles, novelty EPs, live performances and superficial interests on iTunes - until they deliver a CD quality file compression method that doesn’t amount to 10 CDs on a 60 GB player.

http://caustictruths.com/blog/2008/09/26/blame-your-ipod-if-you-think-metallicas-death-magnetic-album-is-too-loud/