"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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Take a look:
It's not pretty!

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...Comparison.png


Iain

Pretty dreadful! If they'd only normalised it to -1dBFS or even, at a
push, 0dBFS at least it would have preserved the dynamic range, but what
they did was
nothing but vandalism.


My guess would be compression maybe 6:1 then considerable
make up gain and brickwall limiter at Inf:1 at OdB FS for a hard
ceiling.

Many pop CDs are mastered like that.

Iain