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Recording engineers using tape would usually push
recording levels up into the red..

No such rule exists.

This produced a
saturated effect on the tape somewhat similar to a
compression type effect. This produced a warm, full
sound.

No, it produces a mushy sound.

Rules my hole. It was/is common PRACTICE to drive the
signals and saturate the tape.

It can't be common practice any more, because hardly anybody still uses
tape.

What people did when tape was all they had is pretty irrelevant here, more
than 20 years later.

This gives more 'headroom' than digital (thus greater dynamics).

Horsefeathers, tape does not give more dynamics than good digital.

If you mean that distorted sound tends to sound "louder" than undistorted
sound, then that's true, but so what?

If you listen to
this phenomenon on analog recordings (analogue recorded
vinyl on good equipment) you will find it has a warm
effect and will not sound flawed.

You call it warm and unflawed, I call it what it is - distorted.

Digital, however, has virtually no 'headroom'.

Horsefeathers. Good digital has far more dynamic range, and therefore its
far easier to run with lots of headroom.

If distortion occurs it is very brash and sounds very flawed.

If you can set levels to avoid that, how incompetent are you, anyway?

"Digital preserves music
the way that formaldehyde preserves frogs. You kill it,
and it lasts forever."

Nonsense. The worst thing that can be said about good digital is that the
signal that is played back is indistinguishable from the signal that was
recorded.