I recently acquired this soundtrack (hybrid 5.1 multichannel SACD) from this 2001 movie, composed by James Horner (RIP). In terms of overall sound fidelity, this one is very good, much better than the average movie soundtrack. The following YouTube video in lossy two-channel format doesn't do it justice, unfortunately:
A few statistics on this one (multichannel layer)--the
DR Database foobar2000 plugin rating is as follows (unfortunately this forum's software removes the table formatting spaces and tabs by default):
foobar2000 1.5.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2020-08-16 06:51:02
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Analyzed: James Horner, Charlotte Church / A Beautiful Mind (1)
James Horner / A Beautiful Mind (2-16)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -8.73 dB -34.05 dB 3:17 15-All Love Can Be
DR13 -6.50 dB -29.70 dB 4:59 01-A Kaleidescope Of Mathematics
DR11 -15.61 dB -35.22 dB 3:34 02-Playing A Game Of "GO"
DR12 -5.36 dB -37.13 dB 3:02 03-Looking For The Next Great Idea
DR11 -7.88 dB -30.09 dB 2:33 04-Creating "Governing Dynamics"
DR11 -9.58 dB -30.42 dB 3:22 05-Cracking The Russian Codes
DR11 -16.28 dB -36.48 dB 4:39 06-Nash Descends Into Parcher's World
DR13 -10.65 dB -32.89 dB 5:15 07-First Drop-Off, First Kiss
DR10 -8.85 dB -29.31 dB 2:24 08-The Car Chase
DR13 -7.16 dB -32.66 dB 8:29 09-Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
DR14 -5.46 dB -32.03 dB 5:47 10-Real Or Imagined?
DR14 -11.94 dB -37.94 dB 6:21 11-Of One Heart, Of One Mind
DR13 -13.38 dB -35.73 dB 6:43 12-Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love
DR12 -13.02 dB -36.42 dB 3:16 13-Teaching Mathematics Again
DR12 -12.83 dB -36.16 dB 3:02 14-The Prize Of One's Life... The Prize Of One's Mind
DR12 -9.48 dB -31.30 dB 4:36 16-Closing Credits
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Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 2822400 Hz
Channels: 6
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 16934 kbps
Codec: DSD64
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The point of course in displaying the above statistics of this disc's multichannel music tracks is to reveal that it conforms to the MPAA standards for soundtrack recording levels instead of RIAA "practices" (i.e., Loudness War).
I once read someone complain on this forum that he "had to turn the preamp gain up" and "didn't like that". All this says to me is that this individual has acclimatized to the Loudness War practices, and doesn't really care about dynamic range--which in my experience is the starting point for high fidelity sound reproduction--even if the dynamic range of the music itself isn't necessarily used by the instrumentation.
Chris