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OK, I think I understand. So the iPod itself alters the compression?
Is it correct that modern albums are recorded with so much compression because they will mostly be played on low quality devices, and the compression somehow covers this up?
Back in the stone age when I was writing and recording original music (1976-77), the studio I used in DC had one of the first 24 channel boards in the area. Recording was on 1-inch tape. I found some the other day in a box in our storage unit.
The producer had me sing through a new whiz bang device called--to my amusement--an Aphex Aural Exciter. I think this was an early compression-type device but I'm not sure. It seemed to improve my voice from horrible all the way up to merely bad.
A current web search shows they are still going strong. The Aural Exciter has been joined by a product called an "Optical Big Bottom."
Merry Christmas all.
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