In Reply to: Re: Re-thinking the system posted by Rick Gardner on November 27, 2000 at 12:14:02:
Rick,Your comment on ear safety is well taken...though I'm not masochistic enough to push the volume to anything approaching what I can discern as the threshold of pain...certainly nothing louder than what I perceive that I hear in the concert hall...and that's acoustic music with very few exceptions. But your implicit point that the absence of typical Red Book nasties could "deafen" us to potential ear damage certainly bears repeating.
Ditto your cautionary note regarding downstream equipment, especially, I suspect, when running in Custom mode. In my situation, I've yet to detect any audible sign of hardware distress (e.g, clipping, voice-coil rubbing, etc.) though I'm running typically at higher volume levels in SACD. (Of course, I appreciate now that I had substantial power supply mods done to my line stage and amp just this year.) Time will tell, of course. So stay tuned.
--Jim
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