I'm in VA visiting my parents. They have to go to church every Sunday. It's their thing. I figure, what the heck, I will go. Its a small place. Maybe 12 pew's deep and 2 wide. As usual, again, the paster eviscerates my family and how we live. I really am amused how my folks sit there and smile and it all goes over their head. Its quite entertaing for me.
More entertaining is they have a live piano played along with a synthesizer organ as the people sing. I listened with rapture to how that piano voiced in that room. How it blended with the voices and the fake organ. What really struck me was the idea of (Live Listening Levels). I experience what I feel is way to many audiophile crank the living you know what out of their systems. Trying to reach what they call live listening levels. Concert levels. It generally is to loud for me and I have to plug my ears. But this church with its organ, people and piano while being very there in the moment is far from being ear splitting. Its actually quite soothing. It's not loud at all. Its full, complete and very enjoyable.
So why is it people have to take their stereo listening to uncomfortably loud levels to get as close to Natural sound as possible, when natural sound itself seems no where near that level of intensity or DB.
Rex
More entertaining is they have a live piano played along with a synthesizer organ as the people sing. I listened with rapture to how that piano voiced in that room. How it blended with the voices and the fake organ. What really struck me was the idea of (Live Listening Levels). I experience what I feel is way to many audiophile crank the living you know what out of their systems. Trying to reach what they call live listening levels. Concert levels. It generally is to loud for me and I have to plug my ears. But this church with its organ, people and piano while being very there in the moment is far from being ear splitting. Its actually quite soothing. It's not loud at all. Its full, complete and very enjoyable.
So why is it people have to take their stereo listening to uncomfortably loud levels to get as close to Natural sound as possible, when natural sound itself seems no where near that level of intensity or DB.
Rex