Originally Posted by Mr Meridian
Originally Posted by George Mills
...never noticed the lower you calibrate the worse it sounds

Ahem...

I've ignored 75dB calibration point for years and kept all the DSPs as high as possible by calibrating to the level of the lowest measured speaker at 0dB adjustment. I raised the -3dB processor gain issue many years ago, advocating direct DSP connection for CD transports to circumvent the veil induced by going via the processor. Many have heard this difference and commented on it, but chose to live with it as a tradeoff for Trifield and MRC.

Cheers

George

Sorry, I stand corrected. There have been many folks saying direct wired is louder and questioned it (including myself). And I know there are few folks that calibrated as close to 0dB as possible. And a bunch at -3dB (or -4dB), deaf dopes like me.

But I don't recall folks saying.

-11dB worse than -10dB worse than -9dB > .. -1dB worse than 0dB

If there was, it was certainly a whisper.

The only threads I recall were Ron's saying more Negative was better (which may be true for Analog and I had analog at the time). But I Believe there are folks with DSP speakers that moved in the negative direction.

And then there is the crowd that says but it's 48bit, 72bit precision and 24bit word so you won't hear it, even if 0dB is in theory better than -3dB it was claimed to be infinitesimal. The further negative the worse it gets and far from small.

I really would have expected if this was throwing bits of resolution away (which it IS) there would have been a much louder, steady stink about it and raised consistently at Q&A's. I'm just as guilty, but I'm deaf wink because I can't hear what so many other folks hear.

I don't mean to point fingers, but I don't think a lot of folks are as objective when listening as they should be.

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