What is the sound level of Your Listening Room?

WOW these rooms sound so cool but to you have system good enough for them?

WOW these rooms sound so cool but to you have system good enough for them?

With a relatatively isolated room under 35 Db you begin...

Money dont buy HiFi.... a working brain and acoustic laws and basic scientific facts can do....

It is easy to verify, listening very costly "unnatural sound" of many so called costly system....Compared to my 500 bucks one.... For sure they are better, but not as much as they think, this is why i am glad to own mine and dont want them at the price they paid...

The only criterium to judge a hi-fi system is the final ratio S.Q/ price....Not the price....And this S.Q. is based on acoustic concept: timbre, imaging, soundstage, source width ratio/ listener envelopment...

If not, it will be easy to boast about the price and not very useful to most....

I prefer to sell creativity at peanuts cost.... But many dont believe in simple acoustic experiments , they believe in price paid...


Then ANY "relatively good system" at a lower price than imagined is good enough.....Modulo electrical,mechanical and acoustic control....

I measured 27dBa at 6:30 this morning in my listening room.  The birds chirping outside would make it bounce to 29.  I was standing about 4 feet away and when my stomach gurgled it jumped to 31.  It doesn’t take much to get over 30.  When listening to music it is around 81-86.

baclagg, sure, I understand your concern about low level passages. If you are listening to digital sources there could be enough noise to interfere. If you are listening to vinyl it would be difficult for normal environmental background noise to supersede vinyl background noise. 
I am a String Quartet fiend. Maybe my house is quieter than most but I am never bothered by background noise even with digital sources.  Perhaps my brain, trained by decades of vinyl only listening, has learned to filter out noise? 

Mahgister, I think you and I agree that price is not an indicator of sound quality. None of the ultra expensive systems I have heard reached the absolute sound. I think we also agree that certain equipment represents a much better value than others. You get much more for your money.  We also agree that it is easy to just plop money down on a system. It is harder to make a great system on a limited budget. If we disagree on anything it is the definition of limited. Limited will be determined by the financial status of the person times the importance of music to that individual. 
I think my system is a fabulous value. I have heard systems costing 3-4 times as much that can not hold a candle to it. But, it is a lot more expensive than $500.00. Power to you. If you are happy with your system that is all that counts.