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I think a lot of the reason we find this lust for compression is the environment most of us listen to music in (at least in this country): The Car. Ever try listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall in your car? You're constantly riding the volume to hear quiet passages and potting down when the loud parts come in. Of course, the right answer to this problem is to build nice compressors/limitors into car decks and iPods (I'm sans car so that's my noisey environment... Your car going by me!) so the user can make a personal choice about how his music sounds based on his listening habits. What sounds great coming out of your $5K home stereo speakers in your house in the country just isn't going to work in a 1982 Honda Civic. However, that's not the way our world works. Our world seems to be geared toward the lowest common denominator. There are millions of people who listen to all their music from a $100 car stereo in a 1982 Honda Civic and only a few thousand who regularly listen to music from a good home stereo. Sad, but true. Recently my wife, who regularly claims not to be able to hear the difference between good and bad sound, remarked how good the sound was when we watch Heroes on my Mac in my studio via iTunes. People can hear the difference, but if they care... that's the question. Mark ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html