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Natural sweet spot in your system.

Something that has haunted most of my systems is finding the sweet spot as it relates to volume. Every one of the systems I have put together the past years seems to have a volume where everything works. I go outside of that on the low or high side and things fall apart. What is the most likely cause? The room, the amplifier or the speakers. How do I increase or lower the volume and keep the same balance in the frequency spectrum. 
coldears
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shadorne
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Probably mostly the speakers. Soundstage has hundreds of speaker measurements showing large deviations from linearity even on SOTA speakers.
coldears OP
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It is amazing how good the system sounds at certain volumes and how it turns to utter crap 15- 20 dB later. I have heard that many volume controls are at fault for this as well. 
stevecham
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I think it’s a combination of room and speakers. There’s a point in sound pressure/volume where the room begins to be heard and often a small range above this that is useful. Below this range, soundstage is small, and above it, standing waves and other anomalies begin to become apparent.
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