People complain about DR and music in an appropriate thread

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If it touches me (or grabs me) I like it. If it doesn’t I am not bothered. Given the fact that I know zilch all about music theory I am not even able to like music from an intellectual perspective, just because it is well made.

As for DR I do not know whether this has been mentioned somewhere else, there is something you can do about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile..._source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

It seems to work quite well. Havn’t used it myself but I know someone (with more time on his hands) you uses it. He was able to improve Billie Eilish’ “When we all fall to sleep, where do we go” from DR4 to DR10 using:

Preclean: ON
Peak: 3
Postgain: 0 dB

Disclaimer: Dunno whether that improves the album a lot have neither heard the original nor the treated version.

 

One more disclaimer, seems like the the plug in works by "just" using an allpass phase shift in combination with attenuation.

Think of the squarewave in below graph as a clipped signal (blue) then the Hilbert transforamtion looks like the red trace:



This has an effect but wether this is more cosmetics or really improves the signal? Surely not as much as the rise in DR suggests. There still is no free lunch and you can "cheat" the DR algorithm