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by aidenn0 6 days ago
Even without clipping (which loud mixes almost invariably have), you lose resolution; for digital it should be obvious that if you start with M distinct values and remap them to N distinct values, you can't reverse it if M>N (which it will be for compression).

For analog there are similar limitations, but it's limited by other factors like noise.