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RE: Compressing Classical Music is a Bad Idea.

"Also as a reference, the La Boheme LP I converted to digital last week has a peak to average ratio of +30 dB. In fact, a lot LPs, even non classical ones, have peak to average ratios anywhere from +20 to +30 dB."

And these are probably the best sounding recordings on a good system. What I fail to understand is why we have uncompressed recordings issued on a medium that supposedly has "limited" dynamic range and then we go to a medium that supposedly has "perfect" dynamic range and need to apply compression.

I think the solution to the playback problem (peak power and room noise) is to release albums in two formats, one uncompressed and the other compressed by the mastering engineer. (These low quality recordings could be released in MP3 format.) In my opinion, this would be a big improvement over the existing situation, where audiophile labels produce high quality recordings of generally second and third rate performances and mainstream labels produce low quality recordings of first rate performances. (There are exceptions.) This situation is changing, as the mainstream labels fold up and musicians start releasing their own material. This leads to an urgent problem: educating the self-producing musicians.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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