[JackA]

On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:09:21 AM UTC-4, wrote:
3:17 AM geoff wrote"
On 23/03/2015 2:28 p.m., wrote:
You can probably make that loud enough without having
to clip any of the peaks.



And you can add significant amounts of compression, even
hyper-compression, without "clipping the peaks".

geoff "


But why would one want to? The appropriate processing,
as determined back when it was made, was already done.

Because soft/tame music bores the heck out of people, especially Pop music.
Either you trim/compress or add more instruments (and/or singing). Why do you think everyone needed a ton of recording tracks about the '70's? Or, why do you think so many overdubbed when only a handful of recording track were available?
I think of music in two ways, how dense the sound and it's amplitude.

Jack