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In Reply to: RE: A refreshed perspective on this hobby posted by M3 lover on August 01, 2016 at 12:52:27
The number one statement from no-audio folks to me, over a lifetime.. has been: "You must like loud music".
Mainly because I own speakers the size of doors....
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that my speakers don't have the lows they expect. that's on music that doesn't really have any. when real bass comes along, they get the picture right away.
as a short circuit i will play 'flight of the cosmic hippo' for them. that quiets their protestations. most of the younger set already have the bass boosted in the headphones (right from the headphones) or in their program material as provided by their mp3 player.
cars too are already boosted and in my last 3 or 4 cars, i have to reduce the bass to about minus four, iven in the premium jbl system in my rav4.
...regards...tr
Mainly because I own speakers the size of doors...
Most folks don't realize what mine are. :)
Many non-audiophiles that I meet, that get to see and/or hear my system, are amazed by the amount of detail; but that is about it. The nuances that a good system is capable of reproducing are lost on those for whom they are not important, or are not a part of their music appreciation aural criteria. Also, E-stat, when I have had large speakers in my system, they are impressed by their apparent potential to play very loud.
I get similar responses with my high-efficiency system. I play music to some Millennials, they expect some loud rap/hip-hop, it seems like they've never been exposed to music as most of us know it.......
Uh. As a kid that grew up in the 80s (which means I'm 50) I have to say that music for my age group was beyond loud. Anyone who spent any time at a club in NYC (be it hip hop, punk or rock) knows that that tinnitus is from that. Mine is from CBGB. I think it was the Japanese all-girl punk band that finally did all the little hairs in my ears in.
Plus if you went to any rock concert, they were loud. Like, really loud man.
Over the past 15 years, I've never attended a rock concert without wide-bandwidth earplugs.....
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