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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: wireless audio link. hiss problems on songs.. via archos/rockbox 2.2Re: wireless audio link. hiss problems on songs.. via archos/rockbox 2.2
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:38:10 +0000 At 13:01 19/03/04, you wrote: >Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: >>0x7f * 92 / 100 = 0x73 == 0dB >>0x7f * 93 / 100 = 0x76 == +3dB >>(we should really move from % to dB for the volume control) > >Linus, > >I really like it better as a percent. It is more intuitively obvious to >non-technical people. > >The average person doesn't know the difference between dB SPL and dbV. If >most people see "0dB", they think that means "silent." They don't >understand the relationship between the "dB" number that they see on the >display and the dB figure that they see in the efficiency rating of their >headphones, why there are negative dB "levels", etc. I'm sure that there >would even be some people who would think that their hearing couldn't be >damaged because the volume was "only" at 12dB -- and 12dB can't hurt your >hearing. > >In fact, I don't even know if you mean dBV, dBu, or dBm. > >Regards, > Fred Maxwell How about a switching scale? It's simple enough; that way the technically minded can have accuracy and the users can have a nice number to look at :) _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-19 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |