Re: MD: Found a CD that cannot be digitally recorded on MD

[Magic]

Graham Baker wrote:

> David Tamkin wrote:
>
> > As I've learned here, all digital
> > media are incapable of representing amplitudes over 0 dB, and digital
> > recordings must be scaled accordingly.
> >
>
> That's true in theory but in practice Sony seem to have allowed for
> user-error by somehow incorporating a kind of 'soft clipping' to (analog)
> record levels that go over 0dB.
>
> My JA3 allows quite a lot of 'in the red' levels before you can hear any
> nasties....
>
> GB

As far as I know they use a compressor which takes anything in the -2dB to
+4dB range and compresses it into -2dB to 0dB.

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