What do people think?
My experience tells me the SNR needs to be better than -80dB for it to be inaudible (to me) listening to music and I had accepted the old limit (around for 50 years+) that better than 0.1% distortion (-60dB) was inaudible, which is way worse than easily achieved in electronics these days.
Maybe I am wrong, I knew speakers were the limiting factor in distortion but never thought such a high level would be subjectively inaudible, and it was even in the frequency range where most of the music resides.
I have always been sensitive to colouration in speakers (I like to think ) but had mainly attributed it to poor cabinet design or drive unit resonance.
This has left me a bit confused, on an objective front.
I had always felt that the performance available from a lot of electronics was way beyond anything needed for SQ - more a measurement of good engineering.
Is there a particular aspect of the distortion of a speaker which may make it inaudible whilst in electronics it would be? If so what?
My experience tells me the SNR needs to be better than -80dB for it to be inaudible (to me) listening to music and I had accepted the old limit (around for 50 years+) that better than 0.1% distortion (-60dB) was inaudible, which is way worse than easily achieved in electronics these days.
Maybe I am wrong, I knew speakers were the limiting factor in distortion but never thought such a high level would be subjectively inaudible, and it was even in the frequency range where most of the music resides.
I have always been sensitive to colouration in speakers (I like to think ) but had mainly attributed it to poor cabinet design or drive unit resonance.
This has left me a bit confused, on an objective front.
I had always felt that the performance available from a lot of electronics was way beyond anything needed for SQ - more a measurement of good engineering.
Is there a particular aspect of the distortion of a speaker which may make it inaudible whilst in electronics it would be? If so what?