Do you feel that anything in the green range is reasonable quality recording or is there a number to stay above?
Hi Dan
the database can prove very interesting sometimes. For example there was a thread here on the new Adele album. Have a look at the Adele album ratings and then compare them to Claptons.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=adele&album=
The differences are like night and day which in this case means red and green.
imo - Dynamic Range is one aspect of music, and can be a really important one depending on the genre of music. Now I consider myself a Music Lover first and part time Audiophile. Meaning...
If I like the music and the artist, that comes first, even if the
music engineer did a not so great job on their work for my situation (listening on a home stereo mainly) So I don't really worry about the numbers. I will still buy and listen to the albums of Artists I like.
This is true of popular (pop) music and classic rock, folk, to name a few genres. where for me sometimes the music message (the words) are just as important as the melodies and stirs my emotions. Now with music that has no words like Classical and most Jazz, the music/sound quality becomes more important to me.
The bigger problem I think for the home stereo setup, is that much of todays popular music has been engineered for air play in people cars, or their phones with ear plugs. There is a lot of noise going around them, and people are not standing still, they are active physically and mentally; so compression is high to hear everything, The music engineer/s did not make a mistake -they did exactly what they wanted to do.
The new Adele album is an example of this to me. Sounds ok through my laptop and headphones. Not so through my home stereo. Also when I am running on the treadmill and Adele comes on, I will listen to it through the small stereo there. It sounds ok.
Just some thoughts.
Cheers