Fear of volume control

@rvpiano

It sounds like you are really enjoying your Triton Ones. 

Stereo5,

Thats a big YES!

Yep, the refrigerator goes off, especially on Saturday nights when doing some serious listening.  It does make a difference for the noise floor.  I always wright a small note "Fridge" and leave it on the kitchen counter top.  I'll always see that before turning off the lights and going to bed.  Only once I made the mistake of forgetting the turn the refrigerator back on.  In  the morning it was obvious as the milk was not so cold and the freezer side fared better but still not a good idea.  I now always use the note on the counter.  Lowering the noise floor just makes for a more pleasant listening experience.

A unit called a phon is used to describe human hearing numerically. When phon curves are displayed on a decibel - frequency graph, the curve is ’U" shaped. The higher the decibel level the more the phon curve flattens out.

At very low volume levels we are more inclined to hear only midrange frequencies and not very low or very high frequencies. As the volume increases our hearing changes and we start perceiving low and high frequencies also.

Hearing | Physics (lumenlearning.com)

Pauly, thanks for that, explains much in the global sense. And then on the micro front, I find individual recordings or cuts, even on same album/cd (recording levels variable within that single album/cdn) require individual volume settings, something not too loud or soft, somewhere that's just right. On top of that, genre of music demands different volumes, electronic dance music for instance loud, folk not so much. Yeah, the volume control is so damn important, rather than being fearful of it I'm in awe of it.