Loudness compensation required

Posted by BigguyinATL (M) on August 17, 2012 at 06:56:23

In Reply to: Low volume speaker recommendations? posted by robertd on August 16, 2012 at 17:47:32:

It use to be you had a loudness control on receivers and Amplifiers and some preamplifier. Some still offer this feature. In practice a loudness control is like a non shelving Bass control that is turn up when the Volume knob is Decreased. McIntosh offered one of the best - Copied by others - the offer a Volume knob that was adjusted upward to a position where the loudspeaker was loud - like where your 1.6's sound good. The a second "loudness" knob was rotaed counterclockwise to be your programming level control. This also required all of your inputs to be somewhat gain matched.

The solution I use is to use presets in my DSP/Crossover.

IMO It would be really silly to use a speaker designed for a single level of playback when it is so easy to apply the frequency equalizatio required. If you want to avoid DSP then a decent parametric EQ would suffice. This one is pretty good - though the tube input stage is still in the circuit with EQ bypassed - not necessarily a bad thing. And it offers an optional A-D output stage.
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Topic - Low volume speaker recommendations? - robertd 17:47:32 08/16/12 (25)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Rvl 07:04:45 08/28/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - LA mitchell 02:33:31 08/25/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Grinnell 06:07:16 08/23/12 (1)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - sonha100 19:17:11 08/23/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Jsawyer09 20:16:18 08/21/12 (0)

ESL57 & Braun L300 - Bill Way 14:33:16 08/20/12 (1)

RE: ESL57 & Braun L300 - robertd 19:45:48 08/20/12 (0)

Acoustat 1+1 or Audiostatic - morricab 07:46:48 08/20/12 (0)

Thanks for all the responses - robertd 07:29:13 08/18/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - lesleymorley@yahoo.com 05:46:32 08/18/12 (0)

To bad you can't get a pair of these. - Mr Steed 14:43:49 08/17/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Hornlover 08:33:21 08/17/12 (3)

Perfect low volume - Sumflow 17:57:32 08/17/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Spkr_Bldr 13:26:26 08/17/12 (0)

What are the relative curves? - DrChaos 10:43:02 08/17/12 (0)

Loudness compensation required - BigguyinATL 06:56:23 08/17/12 (0)

add a 10 band equalizer (nt) - Norman Bates 03:54:02 08/17/12 (0)

Any PHY driver speaker (nt) - plugmein 03:24:58 08/17/12 (0)

Tannoy - JeffH 22:05:21 08/16/12 (4)

RE: Tannoy - Mortsnets 22:17:24 08/16/12 (3)

For one - JeffH 23:15:59 08/18/12 (2)

RE: For one - Jack D II 13:09:30 08/19/12 (1)

RE: For one - rebbi 08:40:55 08/20/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - John Elison 21:41:26 08/16/12 (0)

Reynaud - Mortsnets 21:06:39 08/16/12 (0)

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