Many people claim that the loudness war has screwed up music. I don’t know if you hear metal at all, but Metallica’s album “death magnetic” is an example of extreme compression drive by the need to make it sound louder. You don’t hear any real dynamics which kinda sucks. The problem is that when a song has cranked-up volume, you instantly categorize it as better to as song having lower volume, even if this is just a first impression that can be corrected by turning up the knob.

right now i am listening to tons of parov stelar :weee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpEmIUFXJK0