shadorne
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| Question concerning db sensitivity Jim,Here is an example.Take a classic famous well respected "hall of fame" type speaker like the Wilson Watt Puppy 7.Look at the two distortion plots at 90 db SPL and at 95 db SPL (top curve is output SPL and bottom curve is THD+N SPL)Notice that ... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity BTW I think whomever said that pro monitors do not have horns in them should look at what is on the pro/studio market. Mechans,I meant real professional monitors for mixing/mastering in a studio....NOT sound reinforcement or for nightclubs or con... | |
| using the Radio shack SPL meter 10% of a 90db reading is 9db. that is pretty big if you ask me. No.If the accuracy is +/-10% then this is equivalent to +/- 1 db SPL at 90 db SPL.Decibels are a logarithmic representation of a signal. SPL = 20 Log (Actual Signal Reading/Reference... | |
| using the Radio shack SPL meter Makes me really wonder about speakers PROFESSING OR providing 100+db SPLs. Who can handle that? Unless only a watt or two is used. Jim,My speakers "profess" to handle up to around 115 db SPL average continuous level with head room of around 10 db... | |
| using the Radio shack SPL meter The digital radio shack meter is not a precision instrument. I don't think you can trust the absolute "accuracy" of readings to more than +/- 3 db SPL between roughly 50 HZ and 5 Khz. I read somewhere that the 10 db errors you talk about are at ex... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity Adman227, For some reason I would have thought this issue was less subjective than others Everything in audio is highly subjective, which is why I took the time to qualify my reply with a description of a couple of the general measurable issues/co... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity John,Ok I understand this has simply been your experience. I misread your statement as a fact or well known "truth".Sorry... | |
| using the Radio shack SPL meter 91-92db SPL is the peak level you listened to unless you had the meter set to "average" in which case this was the average peak level (and actual peaks may have been higher).Rock concert levels typically run up to 105 db SPL average (although this... | |
| Best outdoor speaker I have been happy with my two sets of outdoor B&W's - for details see my virtual systems. I would never claim that these are the "best" but they do the job and they do it well. | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity There is no truth to this. Speaker sensitivity has no more to do with sound quality than amplifier power, which is zilch. John,Your statement is as one sided as it is inaccurate. How can you possibly say that speaker sensitivity and amplifier pow... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity Someone recently told me that in their experience, in general, that the higher the db sensitivity of a given speaker, the more you sacrifice in terms of sound. In other words, lower db rated speakers [ 86-88 ] typically sound better. Any thoughts... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Tvad,I don't question your observation but it begs the question why shouldn't a brand new CD play properly from the get go?Did you try other CDR's - like the clear silver ones that look more like regular CD's ( at least superficially) | |
| Vinyl Outselling CD Is this true? If it is it is fantastic news. There is nothing like competition to improve quality and pop CD quality has been lousy lately...1980's pop Vinyl sounds a lot better than much of the compressed pop CD's of today! | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Eldartford,Actually I just answered my own question on the last post. So I thought I would share it.Cross-Interleaved Reed Solomon Coding It states INTERPOLATION: If a major error occurs and a sample cannot be perfectly reconstructed by the error ... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Eldartford, 04-18-07: EldartfordI really question the need to clean CDs. I agree with you. However my personal experience with CD rot did leave my faith in the robustness of CD's slightly shaken. (CD rot is pitting damage occuring on the silver CD... |