Phil Allison:
"Maximum output of CD players"

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That should be just the peaks, not
what it is outputting at all times.
Still, because of how a lot of CDs
are mastered, now and even back
then, it's hard to get a *reasonable*
listening volume without keeping the
volume low. A lot of early(pre-1990)
transfers to CD used manual gain
riding, because I noticed the softer
portions of the same songs on vinyl
still had the same dynamics, but were
just louder than I remembered them
being.

In lieu of those older carousels that
have trouble reading entire long
CDs, I just use a slightly newer(2000)
Sony changer with a pair of these:

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