Greater dynamic range is always desirableNo it isn’t.
Make this experiment:
Take your most dynamic cd and play it in you car when you drive somewhere.
You will greatly be disappointed that in that noisy environment you will not be able to hear the faintest details you do at home. But you know that they are there and you completely missing them and the performance is more or less gone out of the window.
I did that once and were looking forward to get a treat during my car ride. And wow what I got disappointed.. And I the vise versa is also true take out from your car, for example the lady gaga album Joanne on CD an play it at home in your main system. It is unbearable to listen to in a environment of 30 dB.
In your car the noise level is 60-70 dB..
Yes, it is always desirable to have the right amount of compression depending on noise level of the environment.
That is why we can find a setting called volume level in Spotify that has 3 different states: "quiet", "normal" and "loud" (something like that mine is not in US language).
When we understand what that setting means and do.. it is actually translate to: "no compression", "some compression" and "more compression".
Depending on how noisy your environment are.