On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:12 AM,
<kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com> wrote:
What I find interesting about the notion of compressed-mixes-for-car-radios is that modern car radios/cd players have compressers AND automatic volume adjustment (that is, the system detects ambient noise and adjusts the volume accordingly) built in to them. There really isn't a need to compress for CD players.
Indeed, the dynamic range of radio transmission is a "given" and, as such, a radio station may be forced to compress the signal somewhat (at least, to louden the soft passages). I don't understand the driving need to supply a radio station with an already-compressed mix when they themselves will compress it.