The Watering Hole

NPR's All Things Considered actually did an article on the "loudness wars"...

Here's the article.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122114058



And here's the chart in all its glory... 10 MB PDF with 3 songs per year charted, for 30 years:  http://media.npr.org/assets/music/news/2009/12/poster.pdf

I love seeing that visual proof of what we've all known.  Two of my iPOD's (down in the reading room and in the kitchen area) have Classical music along with other styles (nothing noisier than Jazz on either though) and the dynamic differences can be startling.  You turn things up to hear the Classical correctly then some squashed song comes on and you jump out of your skin.

Do you think that the wall has finally been hit (i.e., that Metalica CD that was mentioned) and we might back off a bit?