opaqueice;172110 Wrote: > OK, interesting. Re: the A500, I don't have access to the other review, > but from the audiocritic data there's no reason to think this is > crossover distortion - it doesn't scale the way you say it should - and > it's linear over nearly two orders of magnitude in power, so the best > prediction is it remains so. Even if your crossover behavior - no > scaling with power - takes over right at .1W, you'd still need to go > down to about .005W to equal the tube amp distortion, which is still a > factor of 5 down from your listening level. Anyway I don't think we're > going to convince each other at this point :-) - but thanks for the > interesting discussion. > > FYI my speakers at barely audible level are around .02 VRMS, so you're > right, that is very low. Actually they don't sound very good at that > level either - no midrange. Not sure if that's due to nonlinearities > in the speakers, amp, room, Inguz RC, or my ears though. You have to > remember there's a psychoacoustic scaling with level - the same signal > reduced in amplitude sounds different, not just quieter, because our > perception of sound isn't linear.
I'm not sure about 0.02 Volts RMS into mine.. I had about 0.5 volts peek-to-peek. But if you don't get much mid-range at low levels it sounds like some non-linearity in the mid-driver's suspension. A hysteris-effect. My Yams keep amazingly consistent sound when lowering listening levels. Yeah, we are not getting much further with guesswork. My point was just that something 60-70 dB below maximum listening level may well spoil low level listening. (I'm listening right at the cut-off limit of the SB3's built in volume control, which I believe is 50dB below the max level. In addition I dialed in another 5 dB attenuation in the "preamp level".) Thanks for the discussion. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31843 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
