Loudness Wars: The End of SQ for the Common CD

By: Ben Vollmer, Car Audio Nationals/Team SoundDomain

I have a very few CD's that are pop CD's that I actually enjoy listening in a critical manner.  While at Mark's Sound Quality Seminar before Tulsa, he showed us this quick video on what the record companies are doing to CD's. After a bit of research, I found the video:

And I also stumbled on a pretty lengthy Wikipedia article on this unfortunate topic.  What do you think?