On Tue, April 12, 2016 3:58 am, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Not sure if you saw this reference I posted previously: The AES has published a recommendation for streaming normalization which could, if adopted, help reduce the desire to make recordings seem louder by extreme compression (the recommendation would result in such recordings having gain reduced while streaming). http://www.aes.org/technical/documents/AESTD1004_1_15_10.pdf EBU in Europe and ATSC in the United States have published recommendations for digital television broadcast. I find that HDTV broadcasts in the states are pretty good, at least on the Dolby Digital stream. The two channel down mix stream is hit or miss, often the two channel mix is anywhere from 3dB to 6dB louder. TC put together a list of references to some of the relevant standards: http://www.tcelectronic.com/loudness/broadcast-standards/ -- Chris Caudle