[LAU] Decompressor for linux?

[Diego Simak]

2013/8/12 Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>:
> Am 12.08.2013 02:47, schrieb Diego Simak:
>> 2013/8/11 Ralph Bluecoat <ralphbluecoat at gmail.com>:
>>> It's not possible to "undo" the mastering job once it has been bounced.
>>> You'll sadly have to live with it.
>>>
>>> Sorry for your ears,
>>>
>>> -R
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's been a while since I did anything with linux audio, or even had much
>>>> to do with music, but now I'm attempting to listen to music that has been
>>>> recently released, and find it unlistenable.
>>>>
>>>> The mastering! The compression! It burns!! It burns!!! Auugh, my ears!!
>>>>
>>>> I mean, it's obviously distorted. I can hear the clipping. People are
>>>> putting out released tracks that I can't listen to without getting a
>>>> splitting headache.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any such thing that I might be able to pipe into an ALSA or JACK
>>>> setup, which would repair these broken tracks?
>>>>
>>>> It's sad. It's like people are mastering for laptop speakers, cellphone
>>>> speakers, or earbuds, and nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, as an example, I've just stumbled across the music of Amanda Palmer,
>>>> downloaded her latest album, I think the music is great, or could be, but I
>>>> can't listen to it because of the mastering.
>>>>
>>>> -ken
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>>
>> see this post from Claude Young:
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/114569084697251798925/posts/czFWAWSvBXY
>
> I think this smells a bit like snake-oil.
>
> The EQ/Filtering/Compression/Anything in a rendered signal *is* the
> signal now and there is no way telling, what aspect of the signal is
> introduced by the filtering and what part is the pristine, "hifi
> original". You can make estimations based on common "standards" and try
> to reverse, what *you* dislike in the signal but you cannot effectively
> restore the signal before mastering.
>

very clear your explanation, thanks

Shame on you Claude Young, shame on you!
;-D