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Re: Loudness - What is it for?
#83387 02/28/05 08:13 PM
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I recall going to parties in the 1970s where someone with a cheap Pioneer receiver would have the thing blasting a couple of smallish speakers that were obviously distorting because the loudness control was on.




Hmmm, sounds like when my roomates blew my old RS minimus 7's (or something akin to them) during a party while I was gone for a weekend. This was twenty years ago and even then, I had a Vega non-powered sub, but they somehow mistook that "full sound" as meaning that the speakers were as capable as floorstanders.

Grrrrrrr.......


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Re: Loudness - What is it for?
#83388 03/01/05 01:15 AM
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A brief illustration and discussion of the equal loudness curves first developed through the work of Fletcher and Munson can be found here . Their work was refined by Robinson and Dadson with better equipment in the 1950s and research still continues in the matter.

It's unlikely that a simple on/off loudness button would provide a very sophisticated compensation. It might be worthwhile to use it when listening at a very low background music level.


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