Source used by Roon for dynamic range

[BlackJack]

@bill_perkins

a suggestion to Qobuz that they also provide such a measurement

Qobuz Volume Leveling [Implementation Underway]

Hey everyone – we were not ignoring this request, and we actually spent a bunch of time getting this right with Qobuz before we released our integration in Roon 1.6. In order for volume leveling to work in Roon, Qobuz needs to analyze each file in their service and provide the leveling data to us. This is a big project, and we know that Qobuz has been working on processing their music catalog over the last year. After seeing this feedback recently, we did some investigation to get a sense of h…

Volume levelling on Qobuz albums

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number) MacOS Catalina; Roon build 475 Network Details (Including networking gear model/manufacturer and if on WiFi/Ethernet) wired ethernet; optical fibre Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.) RoPieee with USB DAC Description Of Issue For some albums volume levelling of Qobuz albums already seems to work (Hurray). However, it always applies track normalization, even when in the settin…

Does Qobuz volume levelling work properly yet?

I’ve been playing with Roon volume levelling and over the months certainly more and more Qobuz albums seem to have some form of adjustment reading for Roon to work with, but it seems very hit and miss to me. For example I was listening to Roon radio and it was mostly playing 50’s 60’s female jazz vocals, which were often reduced by 5-7db, yet along comes a modern recording, obviously much louder (as is often the case) and it only gets reduced by 2db - making it much louder than the preceding tr…