>Music from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war It really depends on who you're listening to. For example, this LP and ones like it will

>Music from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war It really depends on who you're listening to. For example, this LP and ones like it will reduce you to tears of joy on expensive headphones, and as you can see from the waveform nobody is telling amon tobin how to compress his tunes: http://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin/amon-tobin-isam/ http://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin/amon-tobin-isam/ Especially check out the second track, which starts at around 6:40. Although that is obviously a 128 kbit/s preview stream. Get the CD.