Fear of volume control

@sns 

I’m the same. I have a furnace room with a extra refrigerator next to my listening area. Both are relatively quiet but to keep the noise down I turn the AC off. Fortunately I can do this with my iPhone after I sit down. I’m probably going to do some serious sound insulation inside the room this year and see how quiet I can make it.

@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)