It's okay SW, I had fun debating all of this and I took none of it personal, but I do genuinely give up and respect your narrative. We'd be better off sitting down with a beer than trying to lay out our positions in text.You're overlooking what the simple definition of the word average means. Compression will not raise the maximum PEP power. What it will do is raise the majority of "average" speech closer to the maximum PEP value available.
It's all good man, I was just trying to rattle your cage a bit. I learn volumes by pushing the envelope, the most knowledgeable say nothing until pushed a bit