A few pages i've saved about this issue:

Loudness War _ Wikipedia

Why Music Really Is Getting Louder _ Adam Sherwin, Times Online

How CDs Are Remastering The Art Of Noise _ Tim Anderson, Guardian Unlimited

Brickwall Limiting _ J.J. Blair, EQ Magazine

The Big Squeeze: Mastering Engineers Debate Music's Loudness Wars _ Sarah Jones, Mix Magazine

Everything Louder Than Everything Else - Have The Loudness Wars Reached Their Final Battle? _ Joe Gross, Austin360.com

Why New Music Doesn't Sound As Good As It Did _ Yahoo! Tech

The Death Of Dynamic Range _ Mike Richter

Imperfect Sound Forever _ Nick Southall, Stylus Magazine

Radio Ready: The Truth _ Bob Orban & Frank Foti, with introduction and comments by Bob Katz (from Katz's book "Mastering Audio: The Art And The Science.")

Pump Up The Volume _ Rip Rowan, WIRED Magazine

Over The Limit _ Rip Rowan, ProRec.com

Music Gets Louder _ Adrian Larkin, BBC Radio

It's Confirmed: Music Is Really Getting Louder _ Duncan Robertson, Daily Mail

Masters On Mastering _ JJ Jenkins, Electronic Musician

How To Make Better Recordings - Integrated Metering, Monitoring, and Leveling Practices _ Bob Katz

Musicians Push for Better Sound Online and On Disc _ Mike Snider, USA TODAY

For Tom Petty Fans, the True Sound of Vinyl, Also Captured on a CD _ Robert Levine, New York Times

Metallica "Death Magnetic" Sounds Better In Guitar Hero _ Ian Shepherd, Mastering Engineer

ans Complain After "Death Magnetic" Sounds Better On "Guitar Hero" Than CD _ Rock & Roll Daily, Rolling Stone Magazine

I've read through a couple of the articles, I will work on finishing all of them. very interesting how, its really about "keeping up with the Jone's". sad very sad

elroy

Sad.

I posted a few months ago that i had to edit in my comp the last album of Queens Of The Stone Age because i just could listen to it. It has so much compression that all of the songs sounds almost like static to me. But i have, from the same band, a 45rpm and it sounds great....

With so much rumble in the news about this mess... imo i have no doubts,"they" are trying to kill the CD as an audio format.

I wonder the percentage of kids that buys cd's nowadays....? Generally they listen to rock or whatever at loud volumes in their mp3 devices but the sound difference between a 192kb mp3 and a normal super compressed cd in that kind of music is less than nothing, so why bother expend money on a cd?

I'm not a kid anymore, and i don't buy a cd for a long time...ok, i have hundreds of them but, now i make my own cd's mostly from downloaded music which have 192kb of minimum rate than i edited them with a good software and i tell you, i've saved a lot of money and the loss in sound quality is not what you think it is.

Just how long you guys don't buy a cd?