My first year of college the professors required us to use slide rules so that we "learned" the meaning and value of numbers,( that was 27 years ago). Still have mine but don't use it, my daughter gets a kick out of it though. Maybe your right AGAssarsson, we may have lost something along the way. Jeff has a point, nobody seems to like listening to lower volume levels anymore, (well maybe a few of us do), so why bother with a loudness compensation feature? It's a shame, some of us still have our hearing intact so the loudness feature would still be a welcome feature. Guess I'm just getting old.