[ToddTheMetalGod]

This is why +15db above your listening level is often given as a good amount to estimate for amplifier power. And it happens to half of the 30db that Music Alchemist threw out there earlier.

Makes sense, that way the amplifier has headroom to produce the dynamic peaks properly.

 

[tomb]

  Hey, I have a song where there's the sound of a plane.
Plane turbines generate 160dB
 
As a compromise, I'm taking 145dB and I'm getting an amp capable of 1000 Vrms to drive my DTs.
 

(just a little joke!)

 
There are some turbines - and I've worked with the planes that use them - where the sonic pressure is enough to be fatal in certain circumstances.
 
But you're right - it was a little joke. 

 

[miceblue]

I'm not really interested in the conversation much in this thread, I was just skimming threads... but you guys are overestimating dynamic range. Look up some dynamic ranges in here: http://dr.loudness-war.info . Even Bach, Mozart, and others are below 20 dB maximum dynamic range. I've got Sessions From the 17th Ward by Amber Rubarth in my music library with 19 dB max DR and sometimes it's difficult to set the volume because of the loud peaks, let alone 30 dB.

Except you need to understand where those numbers come from. Those numbers are not dynamic range in the traditional sense of quietest sound to loudest, but rather the top 20% loudest average values compared to the 2nd highest peak values. Dynamic range in these two contexts are completely different from one another.

 

[Sonnycz]

Ok thanks everyone for stopping by. After reading reviews and comparisons here on head-fi and a lot of concidering, I'm replacing my HD650 with the DT990 600Ω. Most probably I'm getting it this Friday . I can't wait !

 

[Liu Junyuan]

Could I ask what amps people were using t power the DT 880's 600 ohm?

 

[Music Alchemist]

  Ok thanks everyone for stopping by. After reading reviews and comparisons here on head-fi and a lot of concidering, I'm replacing my HD650 with the DT990 600Ω. Most probably I'm getting it this Friday . I can't wait !

That should be more "exciting"!

 

[Sonnycz]

Yeah it's bound to be !!! See you in the metal thread