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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IF we could just find you an editor Heavy, there is a book in there… somewhere 

See Jim Smith’s excellent book on Getting better Sound - he covers this topic and much more. 
He is avid audiophile, music lover, recording engineer. Beware he is a listen and measure guy and experienced.