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The Loudness War
Matt Mayfield Music · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2009–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 25 other explainer videos tagged Audio & video engineering, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.2× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 2.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
38% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2009–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 1 minutes 54 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2006-10-07.
- Channel / speaker
- Matt Mayfield Music
- Verified runtime
- 1m 54s
- YouTube upload date
- 2006-10-07
- Hacker News mention years
- 2009–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Audio & video engineering. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Loudness WarCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 38% | — | 1m 54s | 2006-10-07 |
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| Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?explainer · Stand-up Maths | 4 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 14m 27s | 2016-10-03 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The 'Toy Story' You Remember”. Its short rationale: Example of over-compressed music lacking dynamic range.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal”. Its short rationale: Explains brickwalling in music mastering.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The CD’s Rise in the Music Business: An Oral History”. Its short rationale: Audio sample demonstrating loudness war compression.