[grc] When in doubt, take your eyes off the screen and listen.

[Brian Shiratsuki]

Why you’re doing audio levels wrong, and why it really does matter

By Adam Ragusea | July 14, 2014

...An NPR Labs study last year found that a sudden change of just 6
decibels within a program stream sent half of a study group of 40
listeners diving for their volume knobs. Bigger shifts annoyed them so
much that they said they’d turn off the radio entirely...

[but please don't squash the music too much. lately, most of it is
savagely pre-squashed.]

<http://current.org/2014/07/why-youre-doing-audio-levels-wrong-and-why-it-really-does-matter/>