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The original is fairly weak in dynamic range, but it has an envelope to it, and a nice fringe of peaks. The new recording has completely eliminated the peaks, and a lot of the envelope is gone too. Definitely extreme compression.

Dynamic range compression and limitation was a necessity for vinyl recordings, and it was (and is) generally done as "gently" as possible, to allow the recording to be cut and played without breaking a needle or jumping the grooves while preserving as much of the sound as possible. Dynamic range...

I enjoy Mussorgsky and Smetana and Dvorak. I'm sure there are classical music aficionados for whom that immediately marks me out as a low-brow, but I actively enjoy Eastern European Romantic music of the mid-to-late XIX Century (other music too, of course, but for argument's sake I name the...