BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS

I have no idea what or why you are getting noise, I have never had any situation with any of my RLC-1, anywhere in any system, there must be a way to avoid it.

Previously, how was your vinyl set up? Re-create that, Chase out, still noise free?

IOW, perhaps moving something, something else happened, another connection got moved .....

Out of nowhere, I used to get problems that turned out to be the very worn and slightly undersized rca jacks of my McIntosh MX110z tube tuner/preamp. I’d work on the CD cables, and the tape player’s cable at the other end would be moved inadvertently. That’s when I changed to Locking RCA connectors,

When Audio Classics went over it, they routinely changed all the MX110z’s RCA jack panels to new gold plated ones, so glad they did.

There is no reason not to use it for normal or higher volumes, still get it's remote features: once it gets back up to it's default volume or higher, no signal modification is happening.

And, the two sets of rca outputs 'front' and 'rear' are identical, it is from the weird days of early quad, no processing, where they just put 4 speakers in a room with a front/rear fader. 

Don't expect the speaker alone to be good at low listening levels. That is also a trait of your amplifier and preamp/linestage. If they do not  BOTH have good low level abilities, it won't happen. Most electrostatics and ribbons fare pretty well at lower volumes.

Does your amp work well at quieter volumes?

I know this is late to comment on this post.

Sounds like people are saying that at low volume levels, this Fletcher Munson curves indicate at lower volumes our hearing does not register lows and highs as much. 

Well, your post did not indicate your input, your source. I use JRiver and rip all my music CD to a dedicated music server. Jriver has a built in graphic equalizer.

I don't use it, but it is there. So, at lower levels, you could simply boost your frequencies, as desired to your liking.  Jriver, is dirt cheap, a yearly upgrade is roughly $30, and it continues to work even without an upgrade. 

A high quality music server will get the most from your CD's.  You can look at Baetis music servers, or lots of many other brands. I can personally recommend Baetis.

In my experience good low volume performance comes from inert enclosures.  Less vibration of the enclosure means more of the drivers energy being audible at lower volumes.  Typically ultra inert enclosures are costly.

Not much to do with how inert a cabinet was or not.

If you define "coming to life at low levels" as a lot more detail and resolution is perceived even at low levels.... you didn’t miss of much of the spectrum, the presentation sounded real, etc....

it comes from high sensitivity speakers (can be a pain in the neck if you don’t know how to execute)..., 100db or more....also requires a more linear response, which is hard to do on a high sensitivity speaker rollercoaster, but, can be achieved with a active crossover, tweaking filters, peq, etc..They also won’t have much bass, but, higher fidelity subwoofers take care of that issue....  One can compute how much louder/more audible small details can get on say ..a 86db vs 100db speaker...As obvious by now, analog purists might be out.

Or one can do atmos, 360 reality, etc with an array of speakers even if they are not the highest sensitivity..When they are all calibrated focused in on one guy sitting inside a sonic dome....it can come to life at very low levels there too..The latter type of technology also gives you more clear/accurate spatial separation and placement of sound objects (in space), which helps. 

The OP’s listening requirement of 55 db (?!!) is looking like a lost cause though, (he doesn’t know it yet).. might as well turn everything off, stop wasting electricity and go to sleep at 55db. There may be more hope at 70db, at least.

 

In my experience good low volume performance comes from inert enclosures.  Less vibration of the enclosure means more of the drivers energy being audible at lower volumes.  Typically ultra inert enclosures are costly.