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| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @lonemountain -- I think your post makes my point. Efficiency alone is not the sole issue or a spec to chase. Amp power, purpose and many other factors matter a lot. In live sound, 127dB SPL is important. In home audio, its damaging to our heari... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @lonemountain — This whole efficiency argument is twisted a bit by marketing. A designer liek Doug will tell you if you want additional low end from a driver, you can optimize t for this but the efficiency will decline. That’s a matter of size... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @audiokinesis — Thanks for your informative post. Stereophile’s attempt into debunking thermal modulation doesn’t surprise me.. | |
| Turn down the Volume! @mijostyn -- What about the rest? Every little detail is important, some more than others. ... I didn't address my question about "the rest" to you, but rather aimed it at a general tendency in audiophilia to be less invested in a range of cor... | |
| Turn down the Volume! @mijostyn -- an actual live acoustical reference certainly is the goal, at least as far as I am concerned. The problem for all of us is that a live acoustical reference is a moving target and ones that are not electrified into oblivion are hard ... | |
| Turn down the Volume! @bkeske -- For me, it’s simple. I raise the volume to the point of the music, whatever it may be, sounds realistic and actually scales per the performance. If it is louder, it seems artificial and too large, too quiet, the opposite. Exactly.... | |
| Turn down the Volume! There certainly are more fitting volume levels depending on the source material, as has been pointed to - for some musical content more rigidly than others. Watching movies the reference volume level is adjusted from the most natural dialogue repr... | |
| How many speakers and AMPS do you own, and why? Just recently sold off my second pair of speakers which I had stored up in an adjacent room (not part of a second(ary) system). I only have one setup and listening room, that’s it; one pair of main speakers + a pair of subs, and three stereo amps ... | |
| Subwoofer with Floorstanding Speakers? @bigtex22 -- Still enjoying my Sonus Faber Olympica Nova Vs in our den where I mostly listen to jazz. However…I had a nostalgic experience tonight and streamed up some Def Leppard and cranked it LOUD. With this kind of rock, I am missing a littl... | |
| Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. I do think we do it to ourselves by greatly considering pricing when we buy. A manufacturer has to have certain price points or their gear wouldn’t be considered worthy. I have had audio... | |
| Line Array VS Traditional Box Speakers, Why not just get the line array ? @johnk — Audiophiles will tell you pro audio suxs till it's remarketed to them at a very high price than its the bees-knees. Exactly. | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? @erik_squires -- How important is it to spend time physically close to your gear, vs. enjoying it's output? If you could have your gear in another room, or closet, and you were left with just your speakers with no audible downside would you do ... | |
| Homage to those who are pleased with your audio rig @mahgister -- We can live happy at 50 hertz.... I am.... What has surprised me is how much a hard deck of 50-ish Hz actually suffices. For music you get a long way with this, and it's certainly much more important how >50Hz is reproduced t... | |
| Homage to those who are pleased with your audio rig @2psyop -- I am now pleased with my two audio systems. I am enjoying the music. Both are, by most measures, humble audio rigs but.... I am enjoying the music. Great that you’ve gotten to that, enjoying the music - or managed to continue enjoyi... | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? @mijostyn -- Please let me know what you find out when having gone through the Pre8’s manual. I have no experience with the previous line(s) of DEQX units, nor the Trinnov Amethyst for that matter, but learning of your findings would certainly gi... |