mlsstl wrote: > Anyone who thinks a loud rock concert has a lot of "dynamic range" has > been inhaling way too much smoke at the event. It is simply loud. There > is nothing at the other end.
It turns out that the test data about peak SPLs from Fielder's 1985 paper http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=3829 was about half taken at concerts where Electronic Amplification was used and the loudest instrument being played was a drum kit. IOW, a rock concert. Here's the data from that paper: 20600 About 19 of the approximately 42 data samples were taken at performances that relied on Electronic Augmentation. Two of those 19 Electronically Augmented concerts were jazz while the remainder were rock or miscellaneous. In short the paper's authors apparently wanted the readers to consider rock concerts as some kind of high standard for dynamic range. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Fielder.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20600| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105717 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
