honn
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I think Juan Diego Florez's album, Sentimiento Latino (2006, Decca), contains some challenging tracks to play on stereo systems and headphones alike. The challenge seems to be in reproducing his agile and bright tenor voice with a lot of high formants, or 'ringing quality,' combined with the full blast of the orchestra on some climactic passages, making them prone to distort on inefficient speakers. But even many speakers and headphones will distort on those passages played on low volumes.
The tracks:
Track #5, Granada. 03:45 - end. Especially from 04:00-04:03.
Track #8, Jurame. 00:48 - 00:50.
My Experience:
The Elac DBR62 distorted on lower volumes. The Paradigm Prestige 15B actually did not distort as much except on the lowest volumes, probably due to their high efficiency rating? Quad Z-2 similarly distorted on low volume, but not on high. Philharmonic Audio Mini Monitors distorted on low volume, but I could still hear a bit of distortion on high too.
The Hifiman HE-400i and TinHifi P1 similarly distorted on low.
Closing:
This is all assuming that the distortion is not in the track itself. But it is also a possibility. But I could not determine it because results varied from gears to gears and volume levels.
How does your system do? Make sure you try the passages once on regular volume level and another one on very low volume you'd play in the middle of the night.
Thanks!
The tracks:
Track #5, Granada. 03:45 - end. Especially from 04:00-04:03.
Track #8, Jurame. 00:48 - 00:50.
My Experience:
The Elac DBR62 distorted on lower volumes. The Paradigm Prestige 15B actually did not distort as much except on the lowest volumes, probably due to their high efficiency rating? Quad Z-2 similarly distorted on low volume, but not on high. Philharmonic Audio Mini Monitors distorted on low volume, but I could still hear a bit of distortion on high too.
The Hifiman HE-400i and TinHifi P1 similarly distorted on low.
Closing:
This is all assuming that the distortion is not in the track itself. But it is also a possibility. But I could not determine it because results varied from gears to gears and volume levels.
How does your system do? Make sure you try the passages once on regular volume level and another one on very low volume you'd play in the middle of the night.
Thanks!
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