"I went ahead and downloaded the "de-mastered" WhiteRoom" LOL! :-) "Loudness" is not what makes a piece of music well engineered. Yes modern dance music like house and drum'n'bass use clever compression to make everything sound loud, but that dosn't necessarily mean you should attempt to employ that same method to anything that takes your fancy. The bottom line here is, you cant add compression, limitation etc on tracks that ALREADY have such processing on them because then you just kill the dynamics of the recordings. At the time of writing this i am blaring "The White Room" from the album of the same name in my Tannoys, and it sounds as crisp, punchy and down right brilliant as it always did! If it aint broke........ ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/