On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:42:16 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:


[1] Unless some part of the 'Red Book' I don't know about specifies that
the recordings have to be such that no part of the reconstructed waveform
should exceed the 0dBFS level. But I doubt Philips/Sony thought of this as
they'd just given the world a 90dB dynamic range for the carrier. They
probably didn't dream that those making pop/rock CDs would be so dumb as to
lead us into this possibly becoming a real-world problem.

Darwinism operates very quickly in this area. Make something foolproof
and the fools will evolve to be smart enough to beat it in a single
generation.

d

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