Compression and Loudness

After our conversation about compression (and what it is?) in section, I stumbled upon a couple relevant articles in the past day or so.

This one is on why Vinyl can be preferable to CD's primarily because of reduced compression:
wired.com

And this wikipedia article explains the "loudness war" and how compression use has become rampant and detrimental to the sound of many artists today:
wikipedia.org

I thought they were interesting...

- J