rob aylestone
Moderator
It's not age, it's genre. The style of music sets the dynamic range and if you stray out of the expected dynamic range for that style it sounds wrong. You could record a modern track with natural dynamics and it just wouldn't sound right. Equally you could record an orchestra playing classics and squash silly and that would sound wrong too. So age does have a link to this, but only from listening preferences. I could record modern music, but I choose not to, because I like material with wider dynamic range. When I have to record music I hate, I just process it appropriately, which usually means the quest for consistent loudness!