In Reply to: RE: Question only for those that have, at length, compared these much lauded technologies: posted by DrChaos on April 22, 2014 at 18:33:08:
Usually its there for other reasons- one of the most common being that the producer does not want the mastering engineer to take the extra time and test cuts to do the mastering job without compression.
(An LP mastering system is impossible to overload, see the link below which is in this same thread)
For Redbook, its usually a good idea to apply compression, as the bits available to define the signal drops off with the signal level. This causes a loss of low level resolution.
So as a result 'tasteful' compression is going to be with us for a while...
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- LP rarely needs compression - Ralph 10:21:56 04/23/14 (0)