12-Jul-2015, 11:27
Having been in this game 50 years I agree with warpeon's take. I too find any time I lower the noise floor and increase detail it has always been followed by a slight but corresponding increase in volume. Its not that I 'need' an increase in volume but rather that I 'want' to hear more deeply into the music and the newly discovered good stuff now available sans some of the accompanying aural clutter that existed before but didn't realize it was there... till it was gone! Almost identical volume-wise but so much more engaging and closer-to-the-source. At first blush it doesn't actually sound louder when cranked up a smidgen but rather the same as before although more enjoyable & revealing. This new slight volume bump setting then becomes the new 'normal listening level.' However, decades ago it was less apparent to us we were doing this and probably by virtue of smallish 1" diameter or so volume knobs compared to today's digital volume read-outs. I only realized this was happening after the advent of largish 2.5 - 3" diameter volume knobs then again a decade later with click-detent volume knobs... we could now 'count' the clicks over what went before! This was living large... finally something that was repeatable!
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