The loudness war was directly related to CDs becoming popular. "...because of the limitations of the vinyl format, loudness and compression on a released recor

The loudness war was directly related to CDs becoming popular. "...because of the limitations of the vinyl format, loudness and compression on a released recording were restricted to make the physical medium playable—restrictions that do not exist on digital media such as CDs—and as a result, increasing loudness levels never reached the significance that they have in the CD era." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war