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>>Peter Walker of Quad fame said that every recording has a proper volume setting.<<I agree with this statement, but the proper volume is much higher than what many audiophiles have the luxury of listening.I believe this to be somewhere in the 92 to 100 db range, depending on recording and sound interaction with your audio room.When you are listening at the proper volume. Your brain is not compensating what you are actually hearing. Too loud and your brain puts your ears in protection mode, masking a good portion of the overall sound. Too soft, the brain adjusts for incorrect tone, harmonics etc.. At the proper volume you are hearing the correct realistic timbre of instruments without brain compensation or masking. With practiced careful listening you know when you got it right. It's a fined tuned spot on the volume dial, too much or too little spl, and you've missed it.
I was hangin with a home boy the other nite and he stated that "accuracy" is his goal for his system.
If our true goal is the oft cited ACCURACY then the most accurate perception would be that we could distinctly discern that we are not in fact hearing people in the room with us, but are listening to 2 separate speakers at a specific distance,
preference, perhaps it is for her, too. Show you what I mean, if I get tickets to the symphony hall in my city, they will most likely be in the mid to back rows. Should I have a recording of the same music played, I will adjust the volume to give me the same perspective. Makes the illusion of the real thing more
I was hangin with a home boy the other nite and he stated that "accuracy" is his goal for his system. I thought about this and concluded that I simply do not relate. His system sounds accurate to me, alright, but about as dry across the board as his statement.
I don't think volume has that much to do with it.Does the orchestra seem farther away when they're playing pp? I don't think so.
What are you pursuing and why?
I think we need to pay closer attention to how we apply the term accurate in regards to describing the sound of audio systems. I think a system which makes all recordings sound dry and lacking in ambiance is failing to reproduce a substantial amount of information contained in the recording and is not in fact accurate at all. It has become obvious to me that we are still failing to successfully reproduce all of the information contained in our recordings. As my system's resolution has increased over the years I have found that almost all of my recordings contain more ambient information than I thought they had when I first purchased and listened to them. Scotty