The Importance of Timbre in Assessing Audio Quality

摘要

Have you ever wondered what makes audio so difficult for television? Think about it. It literally took an act of Congress to get the television industry to focus on the problem of loud commercials. This certainly wasn't a new problem. 1 remember fielding calls from irate viewers while working for an NBC affiliate in 1982. Our audio certainly wasn't digital, it wasn't even stereo at that point and yet there were frequent complaints about the commercials being too loud.