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Does music sound better at higher volumes?
I'm under the impression that most of music (especially drum'n'bass) sounds a lot better when you listen to it at high(er) volumes. For example, some albums for which I thought that they were average after listening to them at normal volume are actually very good after I listened to them at high volume. Maybe it's because when it's louder, you pay more attention to it while doing other stuff (browsing forums, chatting on MSN...), or is it just me?
Discuss.
It's all about the bass. Mammoth bass makes a record, so in a proper club atmosphere with bass and lights and party people..the record has it's way with you! When I buy tracks to be played, I think big room, and picture the whole scene going down in my head.
I know it's even better at clubs, but right now I'm talking about home listening, in my case, on the headphones.
music sounds better at lower levels, no clipping
overly high = painful for your ears
overly low = you can't hear shit
it's all about balance.
music sounds best at its proper amplification.
it should be turned up as high as the recording allows, so that there is no clipping. EQ should be flat.
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| Originally posted by paranoik0 overly high = painful for your ears overly low = you can't hear shit it's all about balance. |
Music sounds amazing when it's cranked up, it's the way it was intended.
Countless tunes sound amazing at full volume, whereas they sound only a fraction of that at normal listening volume.
depends on the style. and on the listener
most dance was created to be played loud & thus sounds best that way. indie & chillout on the other hand i'd much rather turn down low
I hate idiots who insist on turning the volume up to maximum simply for the sake of it, because it's painful to hear and often the sound becomes distorted. However, music at a high volume is like a film at the cinema: not essential to enjoy it but you feel you get a better experience.
tis a well known trick in audio sales. When you have all the equipment interconnected through switch panels, in theory so you can swpa just the speakers but keep amp, cd player etc the same, turn up the volume so the speakers you want to sell sound better. louder will sound better, before the point of distortion of course
oh there have been numerous articles in just about every major music professional magazine on this.
Of course I'm talking about high volumes at which music doesn't lose quality.
Some songs. It really depends on what the point of the song is. Dance music tends to sound good at high volumes.
Generally, music that's amplified by a sound system only sounds good to an extent. If you really want loud music that is awesome, music performed by live musicians with acoustic instruments always sounds best loud, though. That stuff doesn't clip.
You can't really listen to dubstep on headphones and get the full experience. It's somatic as much as it is aural.
Depends, I cant say listening to music loudly on a poor audio system is going to make the sound better, because the spectrum of intruments often gets distorted and mingled and it detracts from the song.
Also, some music even on a good system sounds awful at a high volume, I can say firsthand of hours of headache from alcohol-driven country music. But hey, it could of been premeditated due to my personal music preference
The better the sound the more enjoyable it is to listen to at higher volumes. I suppose each and everyone individual gets off when they hear a certain sound and we all feel a different rythem and beat that captivates us like we just had an epiphany
there are tracks that sound good on your pc monitors/speakers...then sound shit in a club...
and vice versa
Some songs need to be cranked to hear some of the low lying elements that make the track, mostly songs with few vocals I find this is the case.
First time I heard 'Tracking Treasure Down' was at normal semi quiet volume and i thought it sucked. Then i heard it in a club really loud and the sound amazed me.
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| Originally posted by bubbleguuum you mean the balance button ? |
Music at high volumes releases some sort of endorphines in your brain and increases the pleasure (apparently)
Highest volume possible without clipping/distorting, or causing pain = win.
I like to experience my music fairly loud. It's a totally different experience, sounding better almost regardless of genre.
Dance music with applied "Dynamic Range Compression" (DRC) sounds louder and more energetic than the original. Most FM stations do that. The music sounds louder although the peak volume doesn't change (the more silent parts of the music get louder while the already loud parts do not change).
This together with an already quite high volume lets you continously bath in rhythmic sounds and that is quite good for your rhythm feelings and could let you dance more easily...
The whole thing (high volume + DRC) is not bad if you listen to Dance Music but it modifies the original music and it is quite bad for mellow tunes, for Ambient and for Classical Music...
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