Re:compression

[Malhomme Olivier <malhomme@infobiogen.fr>]

There is not that much difference between these two different events
that share the same name. In audio compression you loose clearly some
information. As it being useful... Ours ears are educated with years of
records highly compressed  to have a max level. It is just a ridiculous
race for more Db in the end, to be as often as possible near the max.
Using compression on a classicial recording, where it is more the
quality of the take that makes it (apart from the talent of the
musicians, of course) would be stupid and sense less.
By the smae way, a lot of data-compression is being used more and more
when you record at a 48 khz sample rate and using 24 bit a/d converters.
There are more and more -in high end products- recording with new 24
bit/96 khz converters. It requires a very nasty data compression before
the product reach you...

Olivier Malhomme