I think mixing for cheap and crappy speakers have been used as an excuse way too much to justify the loudness treatment of the music. I listen to music with good quality headphones, audiophile home theater / hi-fi setup, macbook pro’s speakers and with crappy car stereo. Overcompressed music sounds bad on all of these and dynamic music sounds good on any of these. I was for example comparing the new DT sample with the Xanadu cover on my macbook speakers and the latter sounds a lot better.
we are a minority man, its sad but true, the last sw live albums sounds great, stereo and 5.1 mix everywhere, i cannot say the same for the lastest live opeth album, the stereo mix (cd, hd, and even the stereo mix on the bluray) is super compressed, the 5.1 mix is a little better, dont know why they decided that loud was better
, im hoping the new dt at least have a not so loud mix, maybe like the hd/vinyl mix on ADTOE