Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

RE: Quad Z4 - Anyone Heard or Bought?

" I live in a flat - with neighbours! " Me too - I understand the problem.

"If I set a suitable volume (usually quite loud without fear of a knock on the door), I find the next track will be FAR louder - or quieter. I'm therefore having to adjust the volume quite frequently when listening late at night. "

This doesn't sound right. Mean recording levels do not vary that much track to track on the vast majority of records. There may be the odd peak here or there but once an acceptable average listening level is set, in general terms dynamic variations usually fall within an acceptable range - the compression applied by the engineers makes sure of this. OK we all have the odd disc that does not conform to this but I am assuming from your posting that these huge variations are commonplace with you. Do you have any figures ; what is your normal mean listening level? What is the average peak compared to this? Have you measured by how much next track "is FAR louder"? Even a sound pressure meter app on your phone will give a reasonable idea.

Living in an apartment and playing music late at night at acceptable levels for the listener usually mandates headphones IMO. That's why I have always maintained a decent headphone setup.

Your experience with the Benchmark seems to echo that of the reviews I have read. Otherwise you have extreme amounts of power available for your purpose from the other amps. The Unos have a measured sensitivity (Stereophile) of circa. 102.5dB for 2.83v/m. So the majority of your listening would probably involve only a tiny fraction of the power available from any of the amps at your disposal.

Portsmouth eh? Have our paths crossed before ? Did you once have ATCs? If not I apologise for confusing you with someone else.



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