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If you have fears that you costumers won't understand why your CD might be a bit quieter than others, just inform them of the used dynamic and its advantages: http://www.dynamicrange.de/ No way. Look at the figures from Universal...

You're overseeing one detail here. Every one on the mastering list agreed to have an overall volume to no more than DR14 in phase 2. Thus less dynamic masters will decrease the DR value, but not the loudness, as you must increase the peak headroom as well. (Just like there are less dynamic...

It's not exactly crest factors, since it uses the top 20 % over 3-seconds-pieces for calculation only, the most critical part of a recording. Thus it focuses on micro dynamics rather than the overall dynamic which entirely remains to the artist to mix the way he likes. I think, it's a good...

A dirty method of "fixing" those asymetrical waveform is a phase shifter (that kind of filter you use for Dolby Surround Prologic encoding). A constant shift is barely audible, but a phase rotator is one of the ugliest things I heard, and I wouldn't recommend one for the world. They are used on...

There is no impedance for DC, thus it can produce threatening currents to the speakers. A DC of about 1% won't be a real problem, but if they become really big, you better get rid of it as soon as possible.

Btw., the picture looks like stolen from a random ebay auction. Noticed that logo in the corner?

By Adlib, you don't mean this ear grinder, do you? Anyways, are you sure, the surround system actually is set to stereo? If so, it shouldn't sound different than on a regular stereo system at all. Sounds much like a missing channel to me. If you checked that, try using a phase shifter on one...

This one is designed to clip without aliasing, if someone wants to give it a try: http://rekkerd.org/bootsy-releases-rescue-vst/

A good idea would be reading instead of reviving this thread. It pretty much states all the misled thoughts behind it. Also http://turnmeup.org/ and those links there are worth reading for that matter. Something like that, and it won't be even a problem if there are several dB headroom left...

This sure would be the exception to the rule. Probably, you found one of the few stations which don't overprocess by their own. In addition to this, the DJ sucks, if he isn't able to match volumes on his own. And still, you actually got the point, that also a soft master will be player...

Yes, give us an example.

They DO realize. They just blame piracy for that. :(

The other big issue is called "no talent", and it can be in fact easily ignored as you don't miss anything by not buying or listening to them. Thus it's not discussed as such a big problem. American Idol (and how it's called in all the different countries as well) came to my mind, too. I...

I usually work with roughly -20 dBFS RMS sine, so that's basically my reference. When I think all songs are fine, then I load them together and check the relations and tweak those whenever it feels necessary. After that, I do cross fades etc. when applicable. Then I usually check the loudest...

Well, it seems a misunderstanding then. I usually adjust the volumes to each other before I even think of the final level. After that, I have a relation which makes sense musically, and of course, which I want to preserve during further editing. Thus pushing the hottest part of the entire album...

Or, if you can master with HDCD peak extension, you can have both B and C at the same time. The downside is, you obviously have to play it back on a HDCD capable DAC in order to enjoy the full dynamic range. Not a thing you usually have in a boom box, car stereo, Walkman, boom box and similar...

I've never seen such a CD player. And I have several CD's reaching 0.0. Most of those MP3s probably would even go beyond 0.0. It's in the nature of data reduction, ie. peaks can go higher as they were in the source. That's why MP3gain sometimes even fixes problems. I bought a few albums in MP3...

It's probably most used on radio stations, and it's the main reason they usually sound that bad, imho. Of course, the best way to get the dynamics you want is to do it during mixing whenever possible. I rarely use compression on the bus at all. Though speaking of mastering, there are some...

Indeed. I mastered dance tracks at -14 dBFS rms sine while those average compilation CDs were at -8 dB already. Someone putting the CD in a car stereo immediately noticed how good it sounded. A good enough reaction to keep it that way, ihmo. Btw. a nicely written article, which should be in the...

If we are talking just about like 2 dB or so, even a general compressor with attack set to 0, read ahead at about 6 ms and release at about 100 ms will do, as long the level is detected from peaks and not rms. (Done that years ago.) And any up to date mastering software provide better tools than...