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In Reply to: Ruh, roh! Listening volume level recheck. posted by TAFKA Steve on June 16, 2002 at 16:54:16:
I too enjoy feeling the music but more important is setting play back volume similar to the spl's achieved if you were listening to the same music/instruments live. For acoustic instruments this could mean 70-80 dBspl while rock, with heavy hitting drummers, requires considerably higher spl's to achieve somewhat realistic sounding volumes.Simply, any recording with acoustic drums, played even with moderate enthusiasm, shouldn't sound correct until mid 90 dB or higher is reached.
Though casual listening in my second "house" system rarely gets above 80 db, from 10 feet away or so, due to wife and child, when I listen to my primary system I recreate the live event as much as reasonably possible. Due to the type of music I listen to the volume is usually greater than 85 dB. Unless realistic volumes are achieved all this talk of accurate sounding systems is just that, talk. Anyone who listens rock music with drums and it sounds correct at 75 dBspl either something is seriously wrong with your system or you're fooling yourself. Conversely acoustic guitar recordings played back at an average spl of 100 db is also inaccurate (unless the recording is attempting to reproduce a live mic'd event producing those spl's).
If you are truly after accurate sound reproduction from your system finding the correct average playback volume should be considered an important variable of overall system performance. I find musical enjoyment is maximized at volumes approaching "realistic" as well.
I use drums as my spl reference because I play them and most music I listen to incorporates them.
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