Upsamplig - downsampling

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Originally Posted by aivoryuk

a further point of interest that still a lot of current of cd's are still going to 0dBfs, so on less then adequate equipment you may hear distortion or even when converted to mp3 (the current trend) will produce overs and can distort.

This diesn't seem to be a issue for some of the great mastering engineers

My guess is that they don't have the right clues. Dealing with distortion down the line from cheap converters and/or psychoacoustic coding should, IMHO, be part of dealing with translation. As it is now, a lot of masters don't translate well to anything but straight playback on a good pair of converters.