Aside from orchestral recordings, which obviously have a lot of dynamics, I have never needed to adjust the volume knob while listening to an album because of having too good dynamics, and most of the music I listen to is older stuff with a DR of around 10-13.
Having intact dynamics doesn't mean you need to mess with the volume knob every 5 seconds, or that it goes from super soft to super loud, it just means it's not all smooshed together, and can breathe. You just need to crank it louder to begin with, and leave it. Easy.
And as ariich mentioned about DT12, most modern albums have plenty of compression on the individual tracks, so further compression isn't really necessary. The HDTracks version of DT12 is plenty loud and compressed as it is, and that's apparently the unmastered version? There is absolutely no reason that album needed to be compressed further, and no part of that album required me to touch the volume knob.