Word of the Day

I saw this term on an article about audio recording processing ("The Loudness Wars"): hypercompression, referring to the recent trend to overcompress digital recordings because of the belief that in the short term, louder tends to sound better. Overcompression (or "hypercompression") is commonly used to squeeze more and more loudness into the recordings.

Of course, as soon as I hear 'hyper' and 'compress' my mind wanders to other things. I think I am going to start calling vac-beds 'hypercompressors'!!!