"Really? I can't find the figures right now, (…)" A good dynamic range for a rock music recording is 15 db. Some of the really badly compressed recordings have

"Really? I can't find the figures right now, (…)" A good dynamic range for a rock music recording is 15 db. Some of the really badly compressed recordings have only 5 db or less. The best classical recordings come close to 20 db, but that usually involves speech. None of the available formats has a problem with any of this. Here is a link with dynamic range measurements for countless albums, if anyone wants to check: http://dr.loudness-war.info http://dr.loudness-war.info