[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:

Actually, I was criticizing the need to have
all tracks on a CD peak within 1/10 of full scale,
for WHAT EVER reason.

Why? There's nothing wrong with that. If the D/A converter is properly
designed, it's going to reproduce what went into it exactly.

Peak levels have nothing to do with actual loudness. I can have a very
quiet CD with one triangle hit that goes up to 0dBFS without even
sounding very loud because it's so brief.

So you _want_ your peak levels to be at 0dBFS. The question is where
you want your _average_ levels to be, because that's where loudness comes
from.

Now, there IS a reason to leave plenty of headroom when you're going to
be doing processing afterward, or on an original recording when you can
never be sure something loud and unexpected won't happen. But that has
absolutely no application to a final release CD.

I know we have all explained this to you many many times and you don't get
it, but I am going to try again.
--scott

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