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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I haven't seen home speakers where the bass driver wasn't front facing.
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I don't know what you mean by a home speaker. Hi-Fi? Bookshelf? This is a studio montior. About every studio monitor I've looked at (around €350-450 a piece, and 8 inch) have rearward facing bass ports. As the speaker will stand as close to the wall as possible, that isn't good.
As the speakers are to the left and right of the piano, they are not angled towards me; low directivity is therefore a plus; and most of the time, studio monitors are very directional. These work fine though: when playing, the sound seems to come out of the middle of the piano, with the bass a bit biased towards the left, and the high notes a bit biased towards the right (which is good, as the bass strings and high strings are obviously situated left and right).
Also, being able to project a good balance in the frequencies at low volume is very important to me, as these can get very loud.
I run the piano with the master volume at 50%, and most of the part 1-4 volumes at 50% as well; so I only use 25% of the capacity. And then, if 100% isn't even enough, I can raise the piano's output jack power by 18(!) dB... *AND* the speaker volume can be raised by another 6 dB using a switch.
Isn't every 6 dB equivalent to doubling the output power? (Don't know on top of my head, if it's 6 dB or 10 dB.) If so, then I could still raise the volume... by...
50% master -> 100% master (double)
50% part -> 100% part (double double, or 4x)
Three times 6 dB in the piano's menu (4 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 32x)
6 dB at the back of the speaker (64x)
If the speaker can even handle that (100W RMS bass driver, 40W RMS tweeter, IIRC), then I don't even want to be in the same city anymore. It's PLENTY loud enough at the 25% I'm driving it at.
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"I have Klipsch adjusted ears."
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In the same vein, a friend of mine once said to me: "You should go out more." When I told him that I didn't like the overly loud 'music', he just replied: "You get used to that."
Uh... doesn't getting 'used' to loud sounds just mean that you're getting deaf?
At my current age, I can still hear a pin drop, which certainly isn't the norm. I think that this is because I never went crazy on the volume knob, especially when using head or earphones. Even so, I've noticed, in a test, that I did lose the ability to hear some extremely high frequencies. 20 years ago, I was able to hear sounds up to 21.5 KHz (more than what is considered 'normal'), but now I seem to cap out somewhere in the range of 17-18 kHz. Such is life, I suppose.