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Originally posted by nostatic
with today's recording technology, when you go to CD you are throwing out data to get to red book. I routinely record at higher sample rates and have to downsample to get to 44.1 16 bit. While it may not be "compression", you are losing data/signal. To me it is worse when you go from analog to CD, as you're throwing away a lot of "data" although it perhaps isn't obvious.

That was a big deal back in the AAD ADD days, but nowadays aren't almost all recordings straight DDD, and thus why they don't put that on the back any longer?
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