698
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The loudness wars were definitely a thing; you are correct. But that was a choice and not a limitation of the medium. Plenty of CDs were not produced that way. But that's not what the OC was talking about. They were talking about down sampling, not dynamic range compression.