FWIW, I generally can't listen to Radio 3 in the car. When you've got a background noise of basically fixed volume, the music has to always be louder than this fixed volume. If it isn't, road noise obliterates the music. Conversely, if you have it turned up enough that you can hear the pianissimo bits over the road noise, the loud bits will kill your ears, your car speakers or both.

But I have to say, if you're listening to Shakira in the first place, quality of sound reproduction is irrelevant when the song is inherently crap...

Graham.