--- PrinceGaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unless [a] I've completely misunderstood the principles of
> 'masking'
> > or [b] you're using an amp which really struggles to drive your
> > speakers at high volume, and fidelity decreases anyway.
>
> ========
> Maybe more like your ears being beaten into submission at high
> volume
> levels, I would have thought!
Perhaps, yes. The more I read the responses from Dan and Les (hi
guys!), the more I think we're just at cross-purposes regarding
working definitions of 'quiet' and 'loud'. I think of a system
playing "very softly" as one providing background music (at these
levels, I'm sure I'd struggle to distinguish cassette, LP and CD,
never mind MiniDisc), whereas "loud" to me is not PA levels, but more
like 85-90dB SPL ('C'-weighted) at the listening position. This is
loud as I ever dare play my system (yes, I know - what a shameful
waste of 125W Audiolab monoblocs...;). The SPLs I experience wearing
headphones are probably a lot higher - but, again, analytical
listening just isn't conducted at 'cranked' levels - it's more of a
visceral thing at that point. So, in that sense, perhaps Dan and Les
are right.
[I'm moving to a new flat in the next few weeks... good point: it's
away from the incessant traffic noise I've had to endure for the last
18 months; bad point: I'll have neighbours above and below. Back to
those headphones...]
Mike.
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