Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post

We are I'm afraid in an age in which loud, effusive, aggressive and ultimately vulgar, are reigning, because they arouse the internal threat instinct and attract attention. The days of subtlety, finesse and refinement seem to be over.

This principle has been being applied to food as well, more and more sources included which sere the senses.

But I agree that the system should reproduce what the recording has on it, and not add anything.
I agree 100%. Natural scale isn't considered "normal" now, in so many fields. I'd add "instant gratification" to your list of modern motivators....

For me, the dream is scale and slam but at relatively low SPL, say 70ish dB at 1m. How do you achieve it, if at all? What is best- in my head for some unproven reason I'm imagining high sensitivity speakers with big drivers and a fairly flat low end frequency response. If anyone has some advice to give...