Does loudness play a part in your appreciation?
I wish it weren’t so but listening at high volume (around 70 decibels) tends to make me get more involved in the music.
How about you?
@mrdecibel higher volume enables easier selective listening…additional watts is my friend… Sleeping with one open may be a necessary self preservation skill |
I'm probably an 85 DB is loud guy. Mostly jazz. Most tracks or albums have a perfect sound level, all different. I turn the sound up until the image of the voice or instrument in front of me is the right size. Too loud and it's blasting and unrealistic. Too small and it elevator music. Anything realistic in size pretty much prohibits conversation. Guess we are loners a bit with this hobby. |
I've sat in the booths a tiny bar with a jazz big band taking up the entire floor. It was amazing, but if I played my system at that kind of volume it would seem crazy loud—even though my living room is larger than that bar. I think the microcosm of music idea applies, and it's more than compression and good gear. Live music has a different energy to it from recordings. I'm kinda glad. It's part of why I love going to hear live music. |
Saw Jon Anderson and his Band of Geeks live last weekend in a larger theater sized venue. This was heaven for a Yes fan! JA still got it. At 80+ his vocals were pretty immaculate which is a wonder! The Band of Geeks....awesome! Super talented and their youth provided unbridled energy. Bruford and Squire would be proud! I’ve seen Yes many times live over the years so I have a good frame of reference for judging such things. I was about halfway back. Sound quality was top notch and peaked in the mid 90’s. When I got home, listening to a high res stream of the similar live album, I set my listening level to just below that to try and best reproduce what I heard. That’s why I have a good hifi.... to get as close as possible to the real thing. If only I had a bigger room to match the theater. Oh well, que sera sera. I’d need to scale up my hifi as well and who needs all that? All things considered, I came pretty close....not perfect. I’ll blame the recording and associated different live venue mostly for that. :^)
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