I disagree. Search the for Wild God by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. This will quash this point of view.
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And is a good use for a TAG, imho.
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Some people will like the music some wont of course, which is entirely subjective. The quality of the album may influence you. Personally I’ve gone from completely disliking an album to liking it, usually because I listened to it for the first time on a revealing system. The ‘Now I get it’ feeling, mostly music that is slightly less accessible. Actually Wild God is a pretty good example. Or some lesser known songs from the Stones.
At least that is what they say to market the remasters. Actually checking for example dynamic range, rarely shows those improve after a remaster is done. I have investigated quite a few, and only found one or two examples of improved dynamic range on a remaster.
I know one can make the argument that dynamic range is not the only indicator of sound quality, and I agree, but then I’d repeat your first post here: Who is going to judge?
Several of my favorite bands have done remasters of their catalogue that are an improvement in the sense of conventional SQ. (I haven’t measured the DR and don’t care).
Yeah, and even in the cases where there is a clear SQ improvement, the originals are just as valid a choice, with all their warts.
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Amen to that.
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Roon themselves, take it or leave it, or anyone who would like to rate an album on music and quality. One vote doesn’t say anything but maybe a thousand will.
Or at least more information on the recording, how it was made, how compressed it is, should be made available. Maybe Roon can do it. Also services like Qobuz could be more open on the origin of its catalog.
Roon shows DR when you buy an album. Why do they do that if it’s completely unimportant? It’s almost always low btw.
It’s not completely unimportant, it’s interesting information, but it is not the (only) decisive factor when judging “what’s the best master of this album”
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I never said it was unimportant. Indeed, track analysis is important when applying, for example, volume leveling.
Choosing an album [the best recording] purely on DR, bit depth etc. rather than listening to the music is unconventional.
Being picky - it might be labelled ‘DR’, but it’s actually R128 LRA…
Of course not but if Roon can add more stuff like that then we’re getting somewhere. And preferably before you buy anything.
This starts to sound as if all you are really after is a displayed DR value for streaming albums. I agree with this, and as they already have enough info for volume leveling, it seems it may not be impossible to do.
There are already open suggestions for this, the one with the most votes apparently being this one:
There’s also:
Regarding SQ ratings, there are at least these:
OK so I’m not the only one! And Roon doesn’t have to sell the albums so Roon, what are you waiting for?
Add your vote to the feature suggestions. I’m just a fellow user and Roon Labs doesn’t usually read the posts here in the Roon Software Discussion.