Amusing Loudness Wars Anecdotes

Last night we went to a small local show, The Acrocats, which is a group of trained cats and their trainers. Totally fun and worthwhile. The little theater had a decent sound system and prior to the show they were playing all kinds of cat related songs and music. I bring this up because most of the music they played was messy sounding and unfamiliar, basically newer stuff. Suddenly, Al Stewert's "Year of the Cat" was being played on the same system that was giving us all this muddy music and it was so crystal clear and beautiful. For a few minutes the music was really part of the environment, not just background noise. In those situations, I feel like I am the only one that notices stuff like that.