Golden Earring wrote: > I'm a little surprised by the dynamic range you ascribe to an orchestral > concert performance, but again you've probably got more experience of > measuring it than me. I'll put it down to the bloke with the cough 3 > rows back. Why they don't issue cough pastilles at the box office has > always baffled me. All I can say is that I've heard some pretty loud > crescendos at the orchestral concerts I've attended to listen to (as > opposed to record & hence measure in the process). >
Some simple numbers: If we ignore dither, 16 bits gives you a dynamic range of 96 dB. I really don't think even the loudest crescendo of any acoustic concert exceeds 120 dB (an amplified concert of a band such as Manowar is a different issue, but I would never attend one of their concerts without professional hearing protectors). The background noise in even the quietest concert venue is more than 35 dB. That still leaves 11 dB of margin. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
