dynamic range

So, I don't know how to word this, but I'm after a headphone like a ZMF. Which I have been told is a great headphone to go for a timbre/dynamic range experience. But I'm only using that as a reference, Because frankly, I'm not quite sure *What* headphone I'm after. So just for reference, I...

So I downmixed one of my albums that were 5.1 to stereo. The original 5.1 version had a dynamic range of 11-13 using TT Dynamic Range meter. However, when I downmixed them, the stereo versions had a dynamic range of only 6-8. Is this normal or is my downmixing software (foobar) bad at downmixing?

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What are the reasons why modern songs and albums are subject to unprecedented levels of dynamics compression and other processing before release? And why don't they sound as good, or as exciting, as music from the same genre released decades ago?

We share our opinion about quality of the sound.... https://www.rdacoustic.cz/en/blog/2018/01/06/the-war-of-dynamic-range/

Hello, I was working on a song when I had the idea of switching the all-MIDI production from 44.1 khz sample rate and 16 bit depth in the project and the file to 64 bit depth and 96 khz just to see what what would happen, if there would be any noticeable difference. I have tried comparing...