Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Help choosing good floorstanding speaker.

when one isn't sure about the quality of a recording,
just increase the volume a Db or two above the recording's
"live" reproduction level.

any distortion will show up very easily, and that will tell you
it's the recording and not the audio system that's at fault.
of course, the system first has to be able to play cleanly at that reference (live) level.

hope this helps. :-)