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Although this is already a somewhat older post, I really would like to put a few things in perspective.
Actually this applies to a lot of conclusions being made on some articles on this forum (or maybe even in audio in general).
What I am really missing is some sense of context.
What I noticed is that most experiments (and conclusions) are done from a home/room type of environment.
There is nothing wrong with that on itself, but the story is sometimes totally different when using the same tools in a different environment.
One good example is a line-array system with something like 24 high-sensitive compression drivers with horns or waveguides.
In that case I can guarantee that everything worse than around 115dB SNR is just going to be very nasty.
Same goes for the other extreme, where the sensitivity of the drivers isn't an issue, but the fact that the environment is very quiet.
To put this in perspective, an average living room is actually a very easy environment.
So to answer the question; how quiet is quiet?
Well, that totally depends on the context and environment.
Actually this applies to a lot of conclusions being made on some articles on this forum (or maybe even in audio in general).
What I am really missing is some sense of context.
What I noticed is that most experiments (and conclusions) are done from a home/room type of environment.
There is nothing wrong with that on itself, but the story is sometimes totally different when using the same tools in a different environment.
One good example is a line-array system with something like 24 high-sensitive compression drivers with horns or waveguides.
In that case I can guarantee that everything worse than around 115dB SNR is just going to be very nasty.
Same goes for the other extreme, where the sensitivity of the drivers isn't an issue, but the fact that the environment is very quiet.
To put this in perspective, an average living room is actually a very easy environment.
So to answer the question; how quiet is quiet?
Well, that totally depends on the context and environment.