Ratings for Recording Quality

[Alandbush]

(24-04-2020 04:05)schliden Wrote:  Thanks.

I had a look at the linked site (I have seen that site before), but I'm not really sure what it all means.

Clearly an album with a higher DR (greener) is somehow better than one with a lower DR (redder), but what does that mean ?

There is a series of threads on the stevehoffman forums that list albums (in different genre's) that the contributors consider to be audiophile quality recordings.

See Audiophile-level-rock-albums

Does the fact that an album has been particularly well recorded (for whatever reason) also mean that it will have a higher DR ?

Searching for Loudness wars or audio dynamic range will provide many web pages that can cover this subject better than I can.

DR values for some of the mentioned albums from your link.

12 - AC/DC Back in Black
13 - Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments
16 - Steely Dan Aja
16 - Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

Just for comparison

03 - Metallica Death Magnetic

Foobar2000 can generate DR values and probably also add appropriate tags. Requests have been made to Roon to add this feature.
I am sure there must be other examples but it is certainly an acceptable method of determining ‘quality’.