loudness wars: digital recording to improve?

Another good point is that the recording industry has allowed its legal distractions to take their eye off the target in regards to quality product in many cases.

I suppose that their argument is that there is not much money to be made in making high quality recordings available to the public these days because most people care about cost first and quality second with these things.

"Sad, but True" I suspect. That seems to be how things in general work these days.

Mapman, you might want to reconsider your thoughts on what algorithms can and can't do, especially when given more brushes and more delicate brushes on a bigger canvas. Getting it right the first time is certainly preferable, but being able to offer some level of repair might be better than leaving it broken. I suspect that the potentiality of these kind of offerings, might more often than not, be squashed by business politics rather than inherent failure.

Unsound,

Most likely the results of applying corrective algorithms should be better, but not likely as effective as fixing this data quality issue at the source.

Audiophiles tend to care about these kinds of details more than most which is why I am skeptical of the benefit to that cranky bunch.

Heck, a lot of audiophiles will never accept digital even if done right, much less if botched and corrected somewhat after the fact.

Remember, CD's have been exposed to error correction since it's inception.

"exposed to error correction"?

I don't understand that statement. In any case, compression is an entirely different - and *relatively* new - thing (at least to the degree that it is used these days).