-80db to 10db volume setting
Ern Dog
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Why did the silly people at Harman Kardon make their AVR with a volume setting from -80db to 10db? Seems to make more sense to me to begin at zero and go up from there, making it 0 to 90db.
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It's really an amp output reference, as your speakers could require more or less from an amp therefor your 0 - 90db thing would be meaning less.
BTW I think all AVR do the same thing, but I also think you could changed the volume look to 0-100 thing if you wish.
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Usually they're set up so that at 0db, you will be putting out the amp's rated power- 90 watts in this case. The bottom end varies... the S/N ratio would make sense, but I'm guessing that it has more to do with whatever control IC happened to be the cheapest and they put in there.Gallo Ref 3.1 : Bryston 4b SST : Musical fidelity CD Pre : VPI HW-19
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Mine goes to 11. . .
Most amps go up to ten, so mine is one louder.
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Nigel: ...the numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the
board.
Marty: Ahh...oh, I see....
Nigel: Eleven...eleven...eleven....
Marty: ..and most of these amps go up to ten....
Nigel: Exactly.
Marty: Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see,
most...most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten.
You're on ten here...all the way up...all the way up....
Marty: Yeah....
Nigel: ...all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar...where
can you go from there? Where?
Marty: I don't know....
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra..
push over the cliff...you know what we do?
Marty: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the
top... number... and make that a little louder?
Nigel: These go to eleven.Signature goes here -
Maybe you have a broken Knob:rolleyes:
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who cares? volume goes up, volume goes down... it works as advertised, yeah?
