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  • Have you ever heard of the ‘loudness wars’ of the end of the 90’s.

    As CD players became standard in cars, they decided the best way to counter road noise, was the max out the levels on new releases… which created a horrible sound… but worse still, then then applied this to re-releases of older albums too.

    I had originals (still do) of a lot of 90’s bands, especially grunge, metal and indie bands… and I was round a friends once and they played an album I had and it sounded awful. So I went and got my copy from the car and played it on their system and the difference was ridiculous.


  • My dad had a 70’s twin tape deck stereo when I was a kid, it had balance sliders on it for recording tape to tape… which we found out was perfect for copying computer games that more modern stereos struggled with. It was a counter top system rather than a tower and probably at least close to 1m wide. I remember him replacing it at the end of the 80’s with some weird little stereo that could play both sides of an LP without turning it over.