[xkcd-sucks]

It's easier to remove dynamic range on playback than to add it back in... don't many stereos have a "loudness" function which brickwalls the audio?

[Fice]

The "loudness" switch on stereo amplifiers is for loudness compensation [1], not compression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_compensation

[pizza]

Shouldn't it be called quietness compensation, then? :P