Yeah, it's actually worse than FM radio at times.That crappy distortion is why I canceled satellite radio, the distortion was so bad that I couldn't listen to the music.
Oh yeah, I was kinda familiar with this already but I did some googling anyways which led me to watching several youtube vids.Google "loudness wars", and several good articles will turn up.
True story:I now cannot un-hear the distortion in the mp3s I'm currently listening to.