Changing Audio Industry of the Future

 

Changing Audio Industry of the Future

 

The battle of loudness goes on, as loud as that seems; those of us on the outside world of the audio producing industry just don't hear it. However, between those music producers or performing artist and the Recording industry; Mixers and those who Master music a war exist to get the most sound out of the audio by any means necessary.  But also, maintain with in the International Broadcasters Union established guidelines (FCC and Foreign country Regulations Body), while the General standard has wide tolerance up to nearly -7 or -8 db LUFS sound output.  Broadcast networks have their own specified out put ratings they want for producing audio for listeners. No one in the industry thus far with a few individuals as exception pushes the max volume out, because it risk damaging audio equipment in certain frequency ranges if mistakes or attenuation is not observed. Even stray transients across a band could cause damage, particularly, in the low bass range of 30 hrz or less. 

 

I have found while most of this is of little or no concern to us on the face of it. Trusting an knowing the music industry is going to put out what is good to listen to rather if its to your taste. But it actually may impact us in small ways we don't quite realize. First of all, the industry already wants to move on up with the latest and greatest audio they can produce, it won't take much before they start pushing audio that requires different players to hear it to its max potential. Yes, you might first hear the music so as long as, they are pushing it at 16bit on mono or stereo up to maybe if lucky 48k, but that would reach older system limits. Yes some people have at least at home with a computer have audio cards that will do 24bit nicely and maybe even better like 32 bit floating point. But it doesn't extend to you vehicle when listening to cd's and such. Or say you want to burn music off to a CD disk for listening in you vehicle while on the road. The "HOT" files those produced at or near the recorded and mixed rates generally will not work well for systems without codecs that will run them. Fill formats of AIF, WAV, ACC, FLIC, PCM are generally those used in professional grade music, but are down sampled to meet consumers need. OGG, MPE, MP4, and others like apples formats and such are standard for CD and sometimes DVD quality. 

 

Perhaps, they will only start producing upgraded music stuff at a slow rate so that people become acclimatized to the listening quality war. I don't know what you do for those old cd players in the vehicles. They will at that time be like the old 8-track tapes...phased out. Ha. Time for some genius to come out with an audio upgrade adapter I guess. But, everyone still has awhile. I am just putting this out as advanced information....ha.