[Trevor]

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Trevor wrote: "Your gut is wrong, you can easily compress music by
*reducing* the peaks,
and thus they are further from dFS. You can *increase* the "RMS" *and*
also
a *reduction* in peak levels with compression. That's the way it was
usually ....

Yes, but when you increase the RMS(raise the level globally), those
compressed peaks will be back up as close to FS as you need them to be!

Simply depends on how much compression you apply and how much global gain
increase you apply. The choice is yours.
*If* you apply more compression than gain increase, you *can* increase RMS
while reducing peak levels, just as I stated.

Trevor.