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Loudness or high sensitive speakers?

Loudness is used for low volume listening. 
But high sensitive speakers are also said to be good for low level listening.
So either I can have speakers with, say 89dB sensitivity and use a amplifier with a loudness button or just have really sensitive speakers.
And both ways will sound good at low volume. Right? Just as good? Or...? 

simna

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simna OP
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I’ve read, at many places, that high sensitive speakers will sound more ”full” at low volumes than other speakers. I assumed it was so. Even pdspeci experiences this.

But if high sensitive speakers are not the solution and the almost extinct loudness button is what to do then?

I don’t understand why ”audiophiles” has cursed the wonderful loudness button that almost every receiver had in the 70s and 80s.

Would it be possible to buy an old amplifier/receiver, take out the loudness ”part” and install it in a modern amplifier?

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