What is your highest DR?

Roon Software Discussion
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Just curious what your highest DR rating? Mine is 25 (!) by Hayley Westenra “Benedictus” from the album Pure.

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I think @joel has a 39-- I forget what it was

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Ha ha. I think it’s only 27 @danny.

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Well thats good. I was beginning to feel inadequate…:slight_smile:

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Don’t know the highest, but my lowest was 7 for an SACD of harpsichord music. It is a perfect recording of an instrument with low dynamic range.

DR is a useless measurement for classical music, in my experience. This is why I want it to be optional and not forced on users.

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Oh, I think I had the 39 then… or maybe it was 29

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baa ha ha…story of my life…add DR envy to my long list of hangups…

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dynamic range is not an absolute… some of my favorite albums are <10 – and it has nothing to do with recordings… they are just low dynamic range.

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DR as presented tells you little about the volume of the recording itself. Program Loudness does.

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Is there any way to sort albums by DR?

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Chose Tracks than you can add Dynamic Range by clicking the Down arrow in the Column bar.

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Great, thank you for this tip

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Just realised you were asking for Albums… :blush:

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Funny about the harpsichord. When the piano was invented, it was called pianoforte which means soft-loud, because it could do soft and loud unlike its predecessor keyboard instrument, the harpsichord and its relatives.
And here is the proof!

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Hmm I’ve got a 28 (Jupiter from Holst / The Planets). Still got 28,000 tracks to analyze though :smile:

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I have to admit to being a bit baffled by some of my DR values:

I would have thought (obviously erroneously) that the lower the value the more brickwalled the album would be. I thought this would definitely have a low value,

but have expected this to have a high value

I’m really surprised these both give a value of 3.

And this also a 3

and this a 4?

Am I just totally misunderstanding what the value tells me?

.sjb

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Same here, JRiver tells me Fleetwood Mac rumours has a DR of 15 (CD) but Roon is saying DR = 8

Is the scale different to other scales like the DR database?

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Yes. You’ll want to refer to this for the hows and whys:

https://kb.roonlabs.com/Dynamic_Range

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Ah yes, the 2 methods are not comparable as per the last line : Though both methods portray roughly the same information, Crest Factor values aren’t directly comparable to values produced using the R128 method.

Having said that, I realise Fleetwood Mac hasn’t finished with the audio analysis. The value shown as I’m playing it is like a running average as the audio analysis continues.

I just looked at Sade which is complete and ‘Promise’ has a DR of 13. Still I shouldn’t be comparing the 2 values - may be different scales.

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So given the two different scales, what is a good DR value in Roon? In the DR database, anything above 14 is considered good.