Loudness compensation

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Loudness compensation activated on a NAD amplifier.
Loudness compensation activated on a NAD amplifier.

Loudness compensation is a setting found on some hi-fi equipment and equalisers that boosts high and low frequencies.[1] This can be used to compensate for the fact that as the volume of audio decreases, the ear's perception of the extreme high and low frequencies decreases.[2]

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