17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
3:05 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:50:04PM +0200, David Olofson wrote:
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:43, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
I'd say that the damage is already done by that type of compression.
Squeezing out the latest 0.1 dB of apparent loudness seems to be
the norm these days (much more than say 15 years ago). Nobody gets
any better by this, it only leads to listening fatigue and destroys
most music.
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FA
Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa.
It could be. OTOH, most DACs today would upsample
and filter before
the real conversion takes place, and could allow for this. But maybe
they don't, and just clip at that point.
I would consider that a hardware bug - but you never know... If this
actually does happen, it would certainly cause a great deal of damage
with the kind of compression applied to most things these days.