I have noticed this as well. EDM/Dance/Pop is a particular offender, we've lost a lot of ground since BT's "Emotional Technology". In the between-years, getting

I have noticed this as well. EDM/Dance/Pop is a particular offender, we've lost a lot of ground since BT's "Emotional Technology". In the between-years, getting CD quality / FLAC formats helped a lot, but as you say, now the original masters are pretty highly compressed and don't get much benefit from quality audio systems at reasonable volume levels.