On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:01:32 -0500, Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote:

In terms of MP3, however, I strongly suspect that not "normalizing" the
WAVs from older, quieter pop/rock CDs to -10dBFS will result in lost
frequencies during the encoding process that can otherwise be preserved
if only their amplitudes are increased at the WAV level.

Oh my god, noooooooooooo.

Here we go again with another complete and utter misunderstanding of
*another* process.

Somebody save me from this idiocy, please.