So I’m running a musical fidelity FB pre. mF xa 50 into epos elan 30 speakers.
At just below half volume I’m recording around 100 DB. Give or take 2. Yes I mean 98-102.
Is this normal for this set up.
Front end is ifi streamer into if dac
I can’t take it above 1/2 as the sofa is vibrating.
Room is 17 ft by 9.
Lol
Thoughts
Should I try 100 % if so I’ll get my ear defenders
I’d say 100 dB is rather loud, assuming this is measured at the listening position. I’d caution driving them too hard wit the Musical Fidelity possibly going into clipping, even though the Epos is 92 dB efficient. What type of music are you listening to?
At that volume I’ve already left the room.
I will be kicked out of the house even at dB 90. I needed a system that sounds great at low volume in the house, and I am getting there finally, I think.
I’ve had a system that does low to medium volume well for about twenty years (steadily evolving). That’s the bread and butter of listening for me.
I listen loud about 10% of the time. I enjoy it. However i do a lot of medium and pre-dawn listening well.
Sounds like a gain issue. I have had low gain and high gain (100db at 25% volume) issues before. Some pre amps output 1 or 2v. Some 6v.
My Rose allows you to pick your output voltage from 1v to 6v in increments. This works really well in system matching.
Maybe a gain mis match?
My Pass Labs XP-30 has three setting INSIDE you can adjust. Not a touted feature but I did change it. See if you have an intenal setting to component match.
As far as how loud, our ears are most linear in frequency response at 8-83dB nominal with 6 dB or so peaks from that with MOST, music (see below). Softer or louder than that and we lose sensitivity or our hearing is “protected” by supression sensitivity. Hearing supression can take a few hours or more to go away so don’t go there or it will ruin your session.
Interesting. Ill remember that. When i engage in true “session” vs just background, i always start slow and detailed. Piano, guitar etc. Then jazz, light rock. The last is always blasting anything from BTO to Allmans to SRV. Then im done. I guess that is the correct order.
