Pleasurize Music Foundation, The most credible dynamic range advocacy group so far? Options

[Axon]

http://www.dynamicrange.de/

This looks pretty good. They have lots of industry contacts, Algorithmix is involved with a professional-looking dynamic range meter (it appears to be a variant of Chromatix's technique, actually), which is already released. They aren't focusing on visual waveform plots (yay) and are instead focusing on industry interaction.

[Raiden]

The English manual is up now.
It seems to me that they got the translation of the critical part badly wrong:

In order to determine the official DR value, a song or entire
album (16 bit, 44.1 kHz wave format) is scanned. A
histogram (loudness distribution diagram) is created with a
resolution of 0.01 dB. The RMS – an established loudness
measurement standard – is determined by gathering
approximately 10,000 pieces of loudness information within
a time span of 3 seconds (dB/RMS). From this result, only
the loudest 20% is used for determining the average
loudness of the loud passages.

But according to their German manual, the histogram has 10000 "drawers" (so 0.01 dB * 10000 = 100 dB ~ Dynamic range of 16 bits).
Actually, if my tests are right, there are only ~1000 RMS values calculated, one each 3 seconds...
Also they seem to have some kind of pop/tick protection, although in the manual they are talking about cases where you should take the DR values on a song-by-song basis and average them.

I'd like to have a look at the complete specifications that they promised to release.

This post has been edited by Raiden: Feb 25 2009, 00:14