Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
Unfortunately, roughly the same isn't good enough. It needs to be level-matched (and that's where measuring comes into the equation, using a meter), because if one recording is being played even just slightly louder than the other, then it will automatically be perceived as sounding more "impressive".

That's just how our ears work

Marco.
Ah but our ears work on the inverse square law which means that small changes are not noticeable only large changes are.