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RE: It's not that simple…

I remember being extremely frustrated with the compression on LP's. I even had an expander back in the day, but found it fairly useless because of the variability of recordings. The occasional audiophile disk with its less limited dynamics was always a welcome pleasure.

Many of us were up in arms over the 16 bit CD standard as well. I understand, though, from Louis Fielder's paper on dynamic range issues in digital recording that noise shaping allows redbook CD's to have an effective signal-noise ratio of between 110—115 dB, which in most cases should be adequate for uncompressed classical music at natural levels:

http://www.zainea.com/Dynamic%20range.htm

I'm curious about your experience with high levels in small spaces. By that, do you mean undersized listening rooms or typical ones? I'm thinking that in my callow youth, I used to blow 4A fuses on my Tympani 1-D's, which would have corresponded to an SPL of more than 100 dB. It sounded great, at least until the amp clipped or the diaphragms flapped. But dipoles don't load the room the way omnis do, and beyond that, most of the loud sound I've heard was either been on equipment of middling quality, or in the studio. So I don't have much listening experience here.

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