[Arny Krueger]

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


Well, the whole interesting question to me is: why isn't
the compression (or lack thereof) part of the delivery
vehicle, rather than the medium itself. In other words,
if car audio requires compression for audibility, then
why hasn't that been a standard part of car electronics
for the last twenty years.....why did the music companies
take on that burden, rather than preparing the best
sounding music they could and letting it be "adjusted"
(or not) according to the listening circumstances.
Certainly blanket compression has always been relatively
simple to achieve (look at the "night mode" that has been
built into almost all tvs/dvd and blueray players, etc
for the last decade.

Seems to me that with a little foresight and cooperation
this mess could have been avoided. And still could be.

The problem is the very widespread perception (which may or may not be
correct) that only carefully hand-tuned compression custom-crafted by
skilled technicans AKA mastering engineers can do this as well as it needs
to be done.