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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: New thoughts about the volumeRe: New thoughts about the volume
From: Rocker <rocker_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:23:15 -0600 I like this from the end user's perspective. Sometimes I have an audio book that was encoded poorly thus I need to crank it up quite a bit. The same works in reverse of course. It would be nice to have some way to quickly increase and decrease the volume while preserving the master volume settings...rocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "André Scheffler" <AndreScheffler_at_kosmopoliten.de> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:55 PM Subject: New thoughts about the volume > Hi, > > I know there have been several discussions about the volume in rockbox and > that it's lower then the volume of the original firmware on some devices, > i.e. iRiver H1x0. > As often explained the reason for that is the Bass/Trebble setting which > lowers the overall volume by up to 24dB (or was it 16dB?), so that no > clipping occurs. > > But what has been overseen in this discussion is, that mostly the > Bass/Trebble never reaches the 0dB-border, so you would only need to lower > the overall volume by maybe 20 dB or even less. > So what I would "recommend" is an adjustable "volume-limiter", so you > could say "Limit the max. volume to: -4dB" or whatever you feel > comfortable with and depending on the music you are listening to. > > So far, > André > > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-07-19 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |