[zamadatix]

Sorting I noticed there were 2 that got "00 00 00" ratings. One basically sounded like white noise and the other lived up to my hopes and had me laughing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXY-ZQdKJg

Unfortunate the site doesn't have a graph of loudness vs time.

[Paperweight]

That's actually amazing music, though will blow your speakers at 1% volume ;)

[lb1lf]

Somewhere on the shelf I have the Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops performance of the 1812 overture.

They used real cannons, and the recording & mastering engineers did their best to reproduce them faithfully. It is one of very few albums I have with a prominent warning sticker on the album which is there for a good reason, not for bragging rights - it basically says that unless you are quite conservative with the volume knob, your speakers will die once the cannons do their thing.

[Paperweight]

Interesting. The cannons would be so loud that, if they're at 0db, the rest of the orchestra would be waaay down there without substantial dynamic range compression. You'd have to crank the amplifier waaay up to listen to the orchestra at seemingly normal volume...

[lb1lf]

-Obviously there must be some DR compression, however the recording goes to great lengths to ensure Tchaikovsky's intent is preserved - that the cannons drown out the orchestra and is more or less a physical experience.

Your comment has prompted me to do something I've been thinking of doing since I got that album - open it in Aucacity and see what the DR actually is - during the 1812 crescendo, it peaks at -0.02dB[FS]; RMS is -24dB.