square_wave
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A few things that will help.
1. Noise floor of your listening room. The quieter the room, the better. Less than 35 db of ambient sound would be awesome.
2. Some amplifier and speaker designs are known to provide excellent details and musicality at low volume levels. The preamp section is sometimes the biggest culprit. The first time i heard low volume magic was on a 1st order crossover - green mountain audio speaker driven by a tube amp with a MFA passive preamp.
If you are a low volume listener, it is worthwhile doing some R&D in this area. There are so many high end systems that comes to life only at 70 to 80db or above.
1. Noise floor of your listening room. The quieter the room, the better. Less than 35 db of ambient sound would be awesome.
2. Some amplifier and speaker designs are known to provide excellent details and musicality at low volume levels. The preamp section is sometimes the biggest culprit. The first time i heard low volume magic was on a 1st order crossover - green mountain audio speaker driven by a tube amp with a MFA passive preamp.
If you are a low volume listener, it is worthwhile doing some R&D in this area. There are so many high end systems that comes to life only at 70 to 80db or above.
Yes Now I started to understand this thread more elaborately...
@SachinChavan High Sensitivity Speakers, driven by an overwhelming amplification (large headroom) should be able to retain most of the details at lower volumes adequately. Just remember the Spl increments on Volume Dial are not very linear(erratic many times) especially with older amplifiers.
High power is necessary only if you have a difficult to drive speaker with complex crossovers.