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jc15; I respect your answer, but how can it be be my listening equipment. I have the 'love ' album and the 'No.1s 'album, both of which sound great. I have many CDs bought over the last few years, all of which are OK. This expression - compression, I've never really understood. I am not blaming Abbey Road (Good Heavens), but if, as 4candles points out in that quote from the Telegragh "to raise the volume to contempory standards", well, what tosh. In the 'old' days of mono and single track recording, alot of "compression" went on (read the Joe Meek story), and the records sounded good. I think that (then) the recording was blended to create one overall sound, and to refer back again to 4candles' quote from the Telegragh, the recordings have now been seperated out, sadly disapointingly.