ralphpnj wrote: > I believe that we're saying the same thing. I was just trying to give > some background and to show people that the compression/boost technique > has been around for a while.
Yes, and in the radio world, there was even good reasons to do it. Compressed music could be heard farther away, so the station got more range for its broadcasting watts, which meant more listeners and more advertising bucks. And until FM came to mass market in the early 1970s, there was no such thing as audio quality over radio. > Good thing I listen to a lot of jazz since > this type hatchet job rarely happens with jazz recordings. Yes, Jazz and Classical, and some Americana are still free of this evil stuff. To be clear, the compression that ralphpnj and I are talking about is separate from the codec compression of MP3, ogg vorbis, etc. Altho in both, information is lost and can't be recovered. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
