In which Ian probably goes too far with his analogy explaining compression using sponges. And in which Jon describes the concept of “sloppage headroom” and inter-sample peaks, and in which we also discuss:

• Why lossy data compression doesn’t affect dynamics, except
• When it does. And
• Why dynamic compression doesn’t affect lossy compression quality, except
• When it does. Plus
• mp3 or AAC ? VBR or CBR ? Do we care ?
• The ultimate mp3 encoder stress-test

Full show notes http://themasteringshow.com/episode-36