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BIS dynamic range

I'm with Chris on this. I'm very happy BIS often gives us a little more dynamic range. It's closer to what I hear in a good hall, which can easily exceed 80 dB. Many assume the dynamic range in a concert hall isn't great, because it rarely gets what we consider "loud." Music in a hall can exceed what happens in homes is at the quiet end. As a good hall, with a good audience, has a very low ambient noise level, a tiny sound, like the gentlest tap on a triangle, can be exquisite.

Reproducing this at home is hard to do, as the ambient noise in most homes is pretty high, so reproducing pianissimo on a recording can be a problem unless you have a very quiet room, and a system that does the quiet stuff well. (Think Quad ESL57, the all-time champs at getting the quiet end right.)

I live in an apartment in a 100-year-old building, which is very quiet, but to get the ppp end of the range to survive, ventilation fans or a/c get turned off, as well as the refrigerator. And once the room is quiet, it helps to just relax for a few minutes, maybe sip a bit of good single malt, and let you ears and brain calm down.

With all the justifiable complaints for years about overly compressed "loud" recordings, I find the BIS approach refreshing.

WW
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