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Re: Your crystal ball must be the same model as....

Klaus, I will tell you again you are chasing a red herring with these dynamic range specs.

The loudest it gets in a concert hall in a normal mid hall seat is around 100db. The quietest it gets in the same hall is around 40db. That is at best 60db dynamic range. Are we clear? A chamber concert might peak at 90db or so with perhaps the same noise floor or a few db quieter if it is a small hall with fewer people all being REALLY quiet.


A rock concert might have peaks of up to 120db but it for sure never drops below 90db. That means a rock concert will have around 30db dynamic range. Besides, this level will simply damage your hearing so I wouldn't advise it without hearing protection. Get it yet?

What I am trying to point out to you and others who keep arguing about the two media is that the dynamic range of Lp and cd are irrelevant because 1) the range in real life is not as large as one thinks it is and 2) Most recordings only use a fraction of the available dynamic bandwidth anyway (because the engineers compress the music to fit with dynamic range limited speaker systems.)

Most speaker systems cannot play WELL over a really wide dynamic range anyway so the bandwidth of the medium and playback system is moot again.



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