Now that is a friendly and very reasonable response with a thoughtful and appreciated argument.The thread is about the best sounding albums. Albums that have been artificially made louder and compressed do not sound all that good. I'm sorry if anyone is offended. But when the recording doesn't sound good because it's loud and flat, it doesn't belong in this thread.
I understand your perspective totally... as per Katz average volume increased over 20 db in twenty years with CDs compared to only 4-5 db over forty years with vinyl (which is shocking!!!)... however, should we really use the "loudness/compression wars" as a blanket criteria (reason) to not consider a recording? Especially a potentially very good recording and nicely mastered despite loudness or compression?