Afairly well known meme in the recording industry depicts a dog in four various stages of grooming. The photos include titles that refer to the audio process: during the “mixing” and “mastering” stages, the animal is depicted as going from shaggy and unkempt to French-Poodle fancy. The final photo is the “gag” panel — “after mp3 conversion,” the photo becomes horribly pixilated.
As ubiquitous as that meme is becoming among audio geeks, the whole joke is about to become irrelevant.