Dynamic Range Foobar Vinyl
Consumer analog cassette tapes have a dynamic range of 60 to 70 db.
Dynamic range foobar vinyl. Dynamic range meter foobar2000 component about dynamic range meter is a foobar2000 component designed to give the same information as the dynamic range offline meter. The dynamic range of vinyl when evaluated as the ratio of a peak sinusoidal amplitude to the peak noise density at that sine wave frequency is somewhere around 80 db. On completion right click the results window to view the output log. Someone tried to vandalise the database by deleting about 76k entries.
Flac ape and wavpack and also supports higher samplerates and bitdepth. Mostly by people who think that vinyl mp3 or self improved versions of albums should not be there. This component can process all audio formats foobar2000 can handle a o. The purpose of this thread is to give an overview about releases recordings which have a much higher dynamic range on vinyl compared to their cd counterpart.
The dynamic range of a direct cut vinyl record may surpass 70 db. Right click the track s to scan and select dynamic range meter. The dynamic range of cds when evaluated on a frequency dependent basis and performed with proper. Participants on the dynamic range database use the dynamic range meter a foobar2000 component to take their measurements.
Yyyy mm dd hh mm ss analyzed. On the site users can search by artist or album. Sample output log foobar2000 1 4 dynamic range meter 1 1 1 log date. In the video below ian uses a record he mastered to demonstrate the inaccurate readings produced by.
The beatles abbey road dr peak rms duration track dr9 3 97 db 16 14 db 4 21 01 come together dr9 3 89 db 16 05 db 3 03 02. Yes i am aware of the thread youtube video which compares a needledrop from a record created from the a digital source with the exact same digital source and the measured dynamic range. Under theoretically ideal conditions this could perhaps improve to 120 db. Pcm of any flavor has a flat response to fs.
When i cut a master for vinyl and a cd master from the same digital master tape they sounded pretty much the same except for the noise floor. The dynamic range meter is designed to give the same information as the popular pleasurize dynamic range meter. The dynamic range of digital audio systems can exceed that of analog audio systems. It turns out the dynamic range meter that folks are using to measure different releases doesn t work accurately on vinyl records or at least according to mastering engineer ian shepherd.
Any user can submit their test results to the site. Tt dr offline meter macos foobar2000 component. View current upload links paid software new algorithm maat.