ModelCitizen;147052 Wrote: > In my experince it's rare that people turn thewir hifi up loud. It > confuses me why so many audiophiles buys kit that only sounds good > loud. I think that when people buy gear they should take care to buy > stuff that sounds good at the volume they are most often likely to > listen to it at I agree completely. Audio dealers are at least partly responsible. When they demo, they like to crank it up to impress the customer, and it's real easy for the customer to choose what sounds best that way. But when the customer brings it home, he probably listens at 10 or 20 dB lower volume most of the time.
When I was buying speakers about 12 years ago, I went out of my way to demo them at my normal listening level, which resulted in a different choice than the ones that sounded best at high volume. And when I bought an integrated amp for a bedroom system about 20 years ago, I went out of my way to find a unit that had variable loudness control to sound decent at really really low volume, like you'd be listening at if someone else were asleep in the next room. Still use those speakers today in my primary system, and still use that amp today even though it would never be satisfactory in my primary system. -- TiredLegs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TiredLegs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
