In Reply to: RE: volume posted by AbeCollins on September 26, 2015 at 14:16:36:
If the system limits the volume, then the system is inadequate. A recording should be played back at a volume that makes the resulting sound as realistic as possible. Ideally, this should be full concert volume in a seat corresponding to the sonic perspective provided by the ambiance of the recording. The SPL levels will depend on the musical genre, i.e. for solo guitar or harpsichord they will be low, but for a Mahler symphony the fortissimo passages will be 90 dB with instantaneous peaks above 115 dB.
The test is to turn the volume up about four dB above your favorite setting and go to the back of the listening room or into the hallway. If the sound is not still clean, then you lack sufficient head room for realistic reproduction of the music that you are playing.
I am using live acoustic music as the benchmark. If your benchmark is live rock concerts, then your hearing may have already been destroyed and any discussion of sound quality is probably irrelevant.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: volume - Tony Lauck 09/26/1518:03:52 09/26/15 (6)
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