Yeah, I know, just try Classical internet radio stations. The music itself is still very enjoyable, but the quality certainly isn't optimal.
I think jonklos was reffering more to so called "loudness war" in this case - i.e. severely reducing (compressing) dynamics by evening out the volume levels of different sections of a track (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkqsN69Jac&feature=fvst). Not that classical music would be the usual victim...
