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Post Subject: I think that they are the same thingsPosted by rowuk on: 5/25/2014

Steverino,I think Apples idea is that the engineers ultimately will master with the lower level "0dB" and that would be the base for all future releases. Then even the CD is a certain amount of dB below the full possible bit depth resolution.
IF the engineers record with more headroom, then ultimately they will not need to reduce the level of anything for iTunes. I think however, that they are more likely to normalize whatever they have in the Mastering process to a predefined "Mastered for iTunes" level. That means regardless of what the finished pre-master was, it wil become hamburger after normalization. Probably better than lossless, but still lossy compared to the pre master - assuming intelligent mixing.............
Still, at the end of the day, at least Apple is thinking about this stuff instead of leaving the status quo at 128kbit MP3 level. Now that the rules of the game are published, it is up to the recording engineers to consider distribution during the recording process.

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