From ProAudio RX:
Recently, a prominent individual in the recording industry was asked to serve on a panel that would judge the best engineered CD for the Grammy’s. After listening to over 200 CD’s, they couldn’t find a single CD worthy of a Grammy based on the criteria they were given. Everything they listened to was squashed to death with heavy amounts compression. What they wound up doing was selecting the CD that had the least amount of engineering. In reality, the winner didn’t win because of great engineering, he won simply because he had messed with the signal the least. What a way to win a Grammy.