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Fear of volume control

An audiophile friend of mine came over for a listening session yesterday and my set sounded better than I ever heard it. It turns out that I raised the volume control higher than normal, I guess to impress him.
Normally I place it around 12 to 1 o’clock. Yesterday I put it at between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Wow! What a difference. the room shook with the orchestra and organ at full tilt.
I was previously hesitant to push the volume much past 12 o’clock for fear of distorting the sound. There was no distortion whatsoever, just clean, beautiful, powerful sound.

Lesson learned!
rvpiano

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teo_audio
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high quality acoustical treatment is the way to keep the volume levels down. And stay sane.

Increase the dynamic range and reveal the more accurate shape and subtleties of the music --- by removing the noise at the bottom.

Not by cranking the volume levels, a tactic which merely makes it scream over the inherent noise levels in the room, and simultaneously pollute your low level signal subtleties. (you know, the subtleties in dynamics and signal that we are here -in this particular world of audio- to try and resolve)
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