What ya listening to (edition numero 46) ?

Since having been exposed to two jet engines for severall months on a row, up to 10 to 12hrs a day , at 90 decibels ! ( jet engines tend to develop high pitch ultra sound, and worst when the rotor bearings start to wear out). i find it very difficult to listen to any form of rock, pop.It now sounds like noise to me, though i was fan before.I had over the average hearing capabilites and still do.( though i enjoy Jazz & Classical music).

The main point is the quality of music/sound ,either numeric radio & tv, is appaling & linear , to my ears it sounds flat :

The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse

http://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/122114058/the-loudness-wars-why-music-sounds-worse?sc=nl&cc=mn-20100102
Thre's an mp3 file of that broadcats available

Loudness war
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1702003

We turn to one of the more dramatic changes we've heard in music over those 10 years: It seems to have gotten louder.We're talking about compression here, the dynamic compression that's used a lot in popular music. There's actually another kind of compression going on today — one that allows us to carry hundreds of songs in our iPods. More on that in a minute.
But first, host Robert Siegel talked to Bob Ludwig, a record mastering engineer. For more than 40 years, he's been the final ear in the audio chain for albums running from Jimi Hendrix to Radiohead, from Tony Bennett to Kronos Quartet.
Bob pointed to a YouTube video titled The Loudness War. The video uses Paul McCartney's 1989 song "Figure of Eight" as an example, comparing its original recording with what a modern engineer might do with it.
"It really no longer sounds like a snare drum with a very sharp attack," Ludwig says. "It sounds more like somebody padding on a piece of leather or something like that," Ludwig says. He's referring to the practice of using compressors to squash the music, making the quiet parts louder and the loud parts a little quieter, so it jumps out of your radio or iPod.