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Old 2012-11-07, 04:34 PM
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Re: DVD PCM Audio track rips, lossy?

Just to be clear (or to complicate things - haha) compression can mean two entirely different things:

Audio compression refers to the limiting of dynamics (loud vs. quiet passages), taking soft sounds and making them louder and louder passages are made a little less loud so that there is little change in volume levels across an entire recording.

Data compression refers to making a lossless recording fit into a smaller file format, i.e.: taking a .wav file and turning it into an eMPty3 file.

Neither one is really that good, but in this case it's the data compression that is REALLY our enemy here!
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