QUOTE(Infinity @ Sep 9 2005, 04:54 PM)
good point there ! u said it all... so how is thunder suppose to sound ? and the real blast of a cannon should be able to be heard a couple of houses away (as if it's shooting from your house)... if your system is capable of producing realistic sound... it should sound damn loud
my point being is... SPL is part of the system... without the necessary SPL... ur thunder might sounds like a dog bark...
now you awaken the neighbour... this has to be something to do with sound damping... which is a different issue... if u have a vacuum wall around ur room... u will get total sound isolation
... but that will cost a bomb... which is why i mention a total different issue...
and who said about enjoying distorted bass ??? those are inefficient and bad design/manufacturing... and about maxing the sub... a good sub should allow u to push to the max without distortion in sound or watsoever... whether u should push to max or not is another subjective issue... if the thunder u r hearing isn't as real as it is... u turn it up...
i guess in addition to a massive blow of low frequency sounds, there is also medium to high frequency sounds.
i guess here is where we find the difference between systems designed more for HTs and cinemas and systems designed more for audio. in an enclosed environment, recordings can be recorded closer to a point of perfection [if there is any
] and thus, an excellent set of speakers would be able to reproduce sound very closely to the original. if youre watching a movie, it'd be harder to capture the sounds of those horses' footsteps thumping on the ground around you [ala LOTR
], right?
in terms of music, im fine if the purpose of adding more bass is to reach a personal preference but i dont see how putting the bass to the maximum settings would be logical. music just werent intended to be listened to this way.
lets say if the recorded sound of the thunder you mentioned is perfect, no flaws whatsoever, just exactly like the original, a good set of speakers [wheter designed for HTs or audio] should be able to give you the same sense of power, right?
[at this point, id suspect the HT/cinema system being a culprit because theyre tuned to give an 'extra' boost in bass, correct me if im wrong...
]
id enjoy a speaker that can go really low and produce super tight notes at moderate and medium bass levels, not pushed to the maximum, distorted or not. an overwhelming amount of bass [just like an overwhelming amount of highs and lows] would jsut spoil the rest of the song, right?
QUOTE(Tachikoma @ Sep 9 2005, 04:57 PM)
I remember reading something on head-fi.org about the system volume settings, and they recommend leaving it at maximum because its a digital volume control. You'll lose a little detail by leaving it at anything but maximum. I don't think you should leave the bass settings at max though, aren't the Z-680s boomy enough as they are?
apparently not