Reply To: Film music vs. classical music

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Nick Zwar
Participant

Yes. I get that. But in the concert hall the listening experience is very different from listening at home with a stereo system. In the concert hall I never had that situation that I could hardly hear the quiet parts and the loud ones were too loud. There everything is on a good listenable level. Maybe because I don’t have a concert hall at home. But who has? So, why not in general pay tribute to the fact that the listening experience is much different at home? And I don’t think, that I was the only one with that issue.

Not sure, I’ve never encountered a classical music afficionado who would want the dynamic range of a recording reduced or nivellated. Perhaps because what you say is easily achieved, either by (as you do) manual control, or automatic setups. Many stereo systems can reduce the dynamic range or level volume differences; my car even has a setting that automatically adjusts the volume if I want to. So it’s easy to reduce the dynamic range of a recording for home listening if you so prefer, but it is impossible to re-establish a compressed dynamic range.
I for one would not have classical recordings that would reduce the dynamic range of a Mahler symphony or a Strauss tone poem.