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 18:50:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20080414165016.GE22115@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20080411204610.GA32413@tango.0pointer.de> <20080412133536.GC32491@tango.0pointer.de> <4800FC14.3060804@superbug.co.uk> <200804122025.57165.faber@faberman.de> <48010CF9.4000600@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 EEA8A244FB for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:50:16 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48010CF9.4000600@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: Florian Faber , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sat, 12.04.08 20:26, James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote: > Thats not very helpful really. > What value should we set it to then? > Another alternative could be to leave everything at 0dB except the master. > For the master we could select say minimum dB + 12. > So, if the Master ranged from -70 to 0 dB, we would set Master to -70 + > 12 = -58dB. > > Would that suit everyone better. I am not so sure about this scheme. There are a couple of devices around where the minimal volume is still pretty high (like these Logitech USB speakers of mine). With them the default volume would then be very, very loud. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4