I recently ran across this most excellent site on the acoustical crimes of the 'content mafia community': http://www.turnmeup.org/
You will find here a lot of infomation on why louder is not better (contrary to popular belief) and what has already been sacrified in the arms race to produce even louder music. My favorite from there is this video:
Enjoy.
tag: Audio, MP3
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