Volume leveling sounds empty

[Menzies]

Hi @Marin_Weigel

You’ve miss-quoted me.

The OP wrote:

@Gigatoaster

I must be hallucinating but since a while now, I feel that volume leveling is making the music flat. I can’t hear much bass and the sound seems lower. Did something change?

I wrote:

@Menzies

Some say that levelling the loudness should affect audio dynamics but some say it doesn’t.

There’s also this for reference:

Roon's 64 bit floating point volume leveling

Usually, there is enough extra headroom available to make quite a large adjustment without losing any precision. The 64bit number isn’t really involved in this discussion, because it is never the bottleneck for precision. There is always a smaller precision bottleneck somewhere between Roon and the DAC–typically 24 or 32 bits. Very occasionally there is a 16bit bottleneck–but this is limited to very old or very cheap devices not marketed at audiophiles. Lets say you’re starting with CD quality…