Non-Compressed Alternative of CDs

Kitjv, CDs are still big in Japan and friends from the UK tell me CDs are still popular.

Discogs is great since they list all issues of vinyl and CD. For rock I buy the original releases from the 80s and 90s. They have the lowest compression, of course some of them were bettered by remastering. These were remastered to improve quality of old  recordings and not to make them louder. Discogs provides the dates of reissues and you can stay away from the
compressed Loudness Wars releases.

As stated above, use the Dynamic Range Database to see how much compression is used on digital releases.

As you know, buying from Amazon you never know what version of CD you'll get. Ebay has many earlier releases which have low compression. I hope you don't mind buying used. That's all I buy now unless there's a classical release on one of the better record labels. 

Thank you so much for the information!

If integrating your ripped CD collection is important or interesting to you, check out ROON. What’s nice about it is you can play from your library, from Tidal or Qobuz etc. - but best of all are the metadata links to bands, albums, tracks etc. You need a ROON-ready playback component (more prevalent now in many newer streamers/DACs etc.) and it costs $144/yr. (I think). I control everything from it including some Sonos gear I have in other parts of the house. Pricey maybe - but to me - the full Monty