That's just the way music is mastered these days, a great article on this stuff is here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm http://www.

That's just the way music is mastered these days, a great article on this stuff is here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm But the debate between vinyl and cds is completely separate from the debate on loudness.