Loud on radio comes from boxes, not from a disc. If you have unremastered CDs of the top 100 selling albums of all time that were built before CDs, they have a

Loud on radio comes from boxes, not from a disc. If you have unremastered CDs of the top 100 selling albums of all time that were built before CDs, they have a lot of air in 'em. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Hotel California" and the Led Zep catalog all show this. There's just no good reason to overmodulate a CD. You have a volume control; use it.