Apesbrain wrote: > Huh? This makes no sense. Anyone with sufficient power can push their > speakers to match whatever apparent loudness level yours deliver. I > won't begin to doubt your ability to "hear things that others may not."
Sure it does. A basic Fact in the Audiophile community. This from an Article. -SPEAKER SENSITIVITY SPEAKER SENSITIVITY IS CERTAINLY THE MOST IMPORTANT (AND MOST OFTEN OVERLOOKED) FACTOR DETERMINING WHETHER NOISE IS AN ISSUE. SENSITIVITY (EXPRESSED IN DECIBELS) IS THE AMOUNT OF LOUDNESS PRODUCED BY THE SPEAKER AT A GIVEN DISTANCE (USUALLY 1 METER), FOR A GIVEN INPUT SIGNAL (TYPICALLY 1 WATT). THE HIGHER THE RESULTING NUMBER, THE HIGHER THE SENSITIVITY. A SPEAKER RATED AT 90DB PRODUCES A LOUDER VOLUME THAN ONE RATED AT 85DB, WITH THE SAME INPUT. SPEAKERS WITH MEASURED SENSITIVITIES BELOW 85DB ARE CONSIDERED LOW SENSITIVITY, MODERATELY SENSITIVE SPEAKERS RANGE FROM THE MID 80S TO THE LOW 90S, AND HIGH SENSITIVITY SPEAKERS ABOVE THAT. THERE ARE VERY EFFICIENT SPEAKER SYSTEMS (TYPICALLY HORNS) RATED AT 100DB AND ABOVE. FROM THIS INFORMATION, IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE THAT THE POTENTIAL FOR NOISE BECOMES MUCH MORE OF AN ISSUE AS SPEAKER SENSITIVITY INCREASES. A GIVEN SET OF ELECTRONICS MATED WITH A LOW SENSITIVITY SPEAKER MAY PRODUCE NOISE LEVELS BARELY AUDIBLE JUST A FEW FEET AWAY, BUT SUBSTITUTE A VERY HIGH SENSITIVITY SPEAKER AND NOISE WILL BE EASILY HEARD AT THE LISTENING POSITION. - Here is the Link to the entire article. ' http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/systemnoise.html' (http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/systemnoise.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cut-Throat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43167 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99970
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