The problem here is how musicians ( I myself am one ) tend to listen to tracks after mastering. The 'loudness wars' tend to lead to listener fatigue because of

The problem here is how musicians ( I myself am one ) tend to listen to tracks after mastering. The 'loudness wars' tend to lead to listener fatigue because of the lack of dynamic range over the course of many songs. Most musicians don't listen to masters this way. They listen to the same track repeatedly to see if it is what they want before moving on to the next mastered track. The number of musicians I know who listen to an entire mastered album all the way through multiple times before it goes to press is 0. 1, maybe 2 times at most for the entire album. For individual songs, that big loudness boost sounds REALLY good. Its the over an entire album that is sounds bad. And especially with the return of a singles culture via iTunes et al, can you blame the many musicians who maximize for the single song experience rather than the album experience?