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Loudness compensation is a setting found on some hi-fi equipment that increases the level of the high and low frequencies. This is intended to be used at low listening levels, to compensate for the fact that as the loudness of audio decreases, the ear's lower sensitivity to extreme high and low frequencies may cause these signals to fall below threshold. As a result audio material may become thin sounding at low volumes, losing bass and treble. The loudness compensation feature (often just labelled loudness) applies equalization and is intended to rectify this situation.