opaqueice;199856 Wrote: > You heard distortion at -120 dB - very interesting. Under what > circumstances, may I ask? > > Let me point out that the absolute threshold of human hearing, by a > 20-year-old in the most sensitive range, is 3 or 4 dB SPL. Therefore > to make any noise - let alone distortion - be audible at that level > you'd be listening at around 125 dB. Ouch. > I hear differences between them when I listen to music through them. What exactly those differences are down to, I can't say for certain. But on the other hand, I am sure that you need to re-calibrate your theories with a touch of reality.
(BTW, doesn't your 'theory' above make a nonsense of all the precise volume matching normally advocated in DBT? A couple of 2dbs here and there would obviously make no difference at all ...) -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34980 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
