How do you listen?

With my speakers/ controlled room/ears...

Never use my 7 pairs of headphones anymore since that event...

i apologize
limomangus
I could not resist....

As a side note the book "Of Sound Mind" by Nina Kraus is a great read for the audiophiles out there

Thanks for the book recommendation...

The 2 last posts message above me are very important....Thanks orgillian97 and ejr1953


I cannot imagine listening over 80 Db regularly.....80 Db is my usual maximum....The line between NO and Yes...Most of my listening is under it....ESPECIALLY in near listening....In regular listening position sometimes for minutes i venture around or slightly over "for minutes"....


This is my anchor 80 Db....Over it, it is tempest in my head/ears/body...No more music....Under 80 Db, i navigate ALL the music in spirit form ; over it, it is gradually SOME sound that pilot my body no more my spirit...

I will repeat the gist of my point, if your system cant give you all acoustic factors rightfully under 80Db your audio setting system and controls in the working mechanical electrical and acoustical embeddings are wrong or at least lacking....This is one of the surprizing test you could make in audio....Listening at high level is compensation or intoxication, not so much music....



«Sounds could be a rainbow rain  or a fist punch, in the 2 cases we perceive colors»-Groucho Marx 🤓

Maghister is on to something. Volume needs to experience music fully are very room acoustics and system dependent.

This is ELEMENTARY acoustic....Thanks for your observation...

The volume of each set of frequencies vary ALSO with the pressures zones distribution of the room for an acoustician and do not vary only with linear distance and angular distance from the speakers.......

The general volume vary with his hands playing with the volume control of the gear only for a children...

Confusing the two is ridiculous...

Insane! Some think that to better listen we must crank up volume, slowly or not, they think that we perceive frequencies according to volume level of the gear only....

The room dont exist....

I dont need to crank up my volume ever....

Guess why?

I am with the OP....

Relaxed level are ALWAYS better... If not, your system-speakers/room acoustic is deficient, sorry to give you a bad news....

 

Some tracks sound best at a certain volume for the simple reason they were mastered to be that way. This is due to our hearing not being linear but corresponding to equal loudness contours mapped by Fletcher and Munson. We do not hear all frequencies equally well at all volume levels. Low bass and high treble in particular need to be at a fairly high level to be heard at all. This is why the Loudness control used to be so common. All audiophiles should know this but whether they do or not all recording engineers certainly do.

You are perfectly right ...

But we must not so much compensate this difficulty of equal perception between frequencies with higher volume than with an adequate room acoustic control to make easier the clarity of perception...

The better a room is controlled relatively to the speakers/room response the less we need to increase the sound volume to perceive details and music..

Moderate volume is more accurate conveyance of the music experience...

Reason is simple, you dont want to hide some information behind some other information with volume higher level....Room acoustic accurate imaging for instance ask for moderate level in small room....


80Db is my anchor....I try to listen at 80Db max where i am sitting...