02-Oct-2016, 15:11
(02-Oct-2016, 12:23)streamy Wrote: When your room setup allows it you should play a bit with the speaker placement. It can be that with two Phantoms you excite different room modes and that now your listing position is in valley and before was in a peak. This is the only way I think you can get what you hear. In ideal conditions with 2 Phantoms you should get a slightly higher sound pressure level of max. 108 dB compared to 105 dB @ 1m with a single silver. But room modes can have a much higher influence on perceived loudness at specific room positions, specifically at the low end.
I strongly urge everyone NOT to go near the maximum loudness of the Phantoms, even for a few seconds. Playing music at levels exceeding 100dB is a sure way to get deaf soon! You have ONLY ONE pair of ears. Human hearing is a marvel that that defies science and there is no easy way to restore hearing once it is lost. Human hearing depends on very sensitive components in the ear that are easily damaged by loud noises (one sad consequence for veterans who return from wars in the middle East or Afghanistan is that most of them have lost a good part of their hearing).
Consider this. At the most sensitive frequency and softest level (around 1Khz), the human eardrum moves less than the diameter of the Hydrogen atom, and yet we can hear sounds. How exactly we discern such soft sounds by such small displacements, and yet ignore all the random buffeting of the ear by air molecules remains a mystery.
DO NOT PLAY YOUR PHANTOM's LOUD! PRESERVE YOUR HEARING. It is not worth losing it for a few moments of thrill.
