Buddhamaster, you're right about the music industry (my first career is as a composer and audio engineer). We spent all this energy getting ourselves 24-bits of dynamic range and now use 1-bit of it, thanks to loudness maximizers. I'm not sure what the point of meters are anymore, since they just need to sit at 0 fullscale. Back in the day I lived by my Dorroughs, and right around the time TASA began issuing rulings because movie trailers were fighting it out for loudness (Godzilla won), I knew we were in trouble.