[Audiovista]

Compression and loudness and.....looks like a very interesting article both, text and "multimedia" versions are available (they are not identical, though)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5480

[lonewolfny42]

Good article Boris...I read the text version...thanks for the link. 

[mcullinan]

sad... That the music industry is destroying the power of silence for profit. No wonder I get a headache listening to a lot of todays music, and I thought I was getting old. Hehe

[Audiovista]

By oversimplifying some statemets, it looks that CDs from early to mid 1980s are good (compresion-wise), 1990s are really bad and after 2000 they improved a little. With Vinyl, before 1980 is good, new releases may or may not be (over)compressed.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Yea, I read that. Doesn't sound like things will be changing anytime soon and that's a shame.
We were discussing that very article recently here too;
http://www.hawthorneaudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1243

Bob