Louder, LOUDER!!!

Do you have the feeling that music nowadays is getting noisier and louder? You may be right. According to this Slashdot article, "sound levels are being artificially enhanced so that the music punches through when it competes against background noise in pubs or cars".

Isn't it just great? Recording companies enforcing their product creating more noise pollution... And we are eating it. Like if "people" who like to blast their (and others) ears with high volume music weren't enough.

Besides, the excess of clipping distorts the music... so what we're hearing isn't (fortunately) exactly what we'd hear in a live show.