On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:36:01 -0500, thelizman wrote:
TCS wrote:
Cite? It's easy enough to test. Put two sound systems in the same room,
one playing the loudest passage a CD can reproduce and the other playing
the quietest passage a CD can reproduce. You won't be able to hear the
quiet passage at all.

You mean playing both at the same time? Well no **** sherlock! But
that's not what dynamic range is. Dynamic Range is the difference
between the loudest and softest sound able to be resolved. Technically
speaking, the human hear has infinite dynamic range at least once! On
repeated occasions, most bassheads can tell the difference beween 10 db
of SPL and 140 db of SPL (not an uncommon number on the car audio
circuit). That range beats CDs by 20 db.

If you want 140db on a CD, turn up the ****ing volume. You'll be too
deaf afterwards to ever hear anything at 40db again.

And by the way, even at 140db, there's less than 80db of dynamic range in
a moving car.