From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: What does 0dB refer to? (Logitech USB Speakers) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20080414164036.GC22115@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20080411204610.GA32413@tango.0pointer.de> <480099C6.3040708@superbug.co.uk> <20080412133536.GC32491@tango.0pointer.de> <4800FC14.3060804@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from tango.0pointer.de (tango.0pointer.de [85.214.72.216]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BAD2455D for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:38 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4800FC14.3060804@superbug.co.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: ALSA Development Mailing List List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sat, 12.04.08 19:14, James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote: > That sounds reasonable for now. Professional sound card users will maybe > just have to remember to mute the master control before connecting their > speakers. > > I don't understand why your sound card is OK at -40dB but too loud at > -41dB. It does not make any sense. There must be a bug there, because > -41dB should be quieter than -40dB. Sorry, this is not what I wanted to say. All I wanted to say is that -40dB and 41db are both fine. But higher values become rapidly very, very loud. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4