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Author Topic: Serious Listening With Low SPL Only?  (Read 11454 times)
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« on: August 07, 2015, 12:21:06 pm »

This is an interesting point of view, found here:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/molamola/4.html

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The very best and also shortest way to explain that benefit is to turn the volume down. Playing loud (within reason of course) is easy. The sound blooms and gets most robust. Playing quietly is far harder. Now the sound tends to collapse and wash out. Not with the Kalugas. They enveloped us in an aural illusion with maximum addiction potential. The proof was being able to play at the lowest perceivable SPL late at night when everything was quiet, even the birds, with our fridge temporarily unplugged to drive down all interior noise to the absolute minimum. Under these most challenging of possible circumstances, the Kalugas still triggered all our emotional sensors. Listening at low volume says so vastly more about a hifi’s true potential than SPL orgies. It also far more convincingly closes the gap between recording and audience. High SPL for serious listening don’t work. They very quickly numb our senses. Getting truly intimate is a matter of nuance and fine cues which attract and repel like turning magnets. That’s when music matters. Here Kaluga proved to be the ultimate go between. Its capabilities to make the air in the room move and excite the ancient ear/brain connection was uncanny; and worked with any speaker we tried. Our time with Kaluga made up for the very long time we waited for Kaluga. Damn was this good! When amplifiers get out of the way like these do, there really is nothing more to say. Anything more would be about added personality and the license of an inaccurate interpreter...
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« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2015, 12:53:52 pm »

Nice.

Hard to agree with that, though.

Apparently it is not easy to have everything in well fashion with a higher SPL ?
For 6moons ?

Thank you for posting, Joachim !
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2015, 12:32:22 pm »

Being flippant.  Wink
When I was a lad, they called this a loudness button. It boosted base and high frequencies for late night listening.
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