[Andrew Barss]

I found these quite interesting; first is a Salon.com article (scroll
down to "The Death of Hi-Fi?"), which has some very interesting
letters in reply, second is an AP article.

http://salon.com/ent/audiofile/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

Once of the Salon letters refers to a very good YouTube
segment illustrating dynamic compression and the problems it creates, at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ .

-- Andy Barss

[Arny Krueger]

"Andrew Barss" wrote in message


I found these quite interesting; first is a Salon.com
article (scroll down to "The Death of Hi-Fi?"), which has
some very interesting
letters in reply, second is an AP article.

Note: these pages are primarily about perceptual coding or lossy compresion.

http://salon.com/ent/audiofile/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

In contast, this page is about dynamics compression, a completely different
thing.

Once of the Salon letters refers to a very good YouTube
segment illustrating dynamic compression and the
problems it creates, at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ .