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Originally Posted by Retinal 
"is more important for the album to sound -6.50 RMS but with a lil distortion or -10 RMS but no distortion |
Ouch.
Just do this:
- Prepare your album to hit -6.5 RMS.
- Put it on a somewhat decent Hifi or on decent headphones.
- Turn it up ... it's rock n' roll.
- Now listen to the whole album with no breaks and do nothing except listen to the music, as your biggest fans, those who you make music for, would do.
- See how long it takes before you get a headache...
- Accept that those 3.5 dB of loudness will cause your listeners headaches too. And now try rationalising again why those 3.5 dB are necessary - when every playback device has a volume control anyway that they set right when they press play. It gets hard...