[alsa-devel] What does 0dB refer to? (Logitech USB Speakers)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 14.04.08 19:22, Rene Herman (rene.herman at keyaccess.nl) wrote:

> 
> On 14-04-08 19:00, Lennart Poettering wrote:
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> > On Sat, 12.04.08 21:32, Rene Herman (rene.herman at keyaccess.nl) wrote:
> 
> >> If we add in ISA cards, it's not a very generic assumption at least. For 
> >> example on my cs4236, "master" is -94,5 to +12 dB with 0dB at "87" in the 
> >> integer scale.
> >>
> >> It's a "Master Digital Gain" -- not sure what that "digital" implies as it 
> >> very much seems to be positioend in the post output mixer analog path...
> > 
> > Maybe the driver should add an internal offset to the dB scale, to
> > guarantee that 0dB is max, instead of just copying the hw specs?
> 
> No, really quite definitely not. 0 dB means no attenuation of amplification. 
> How loud that actually ends up is very much dependent on what's _behind_ 
> your line-out.

Yes, but what I am asking for is to define the dB values of the master
control relative to the some ref level on this line-out. What happens
after the line-out doesn't matter at all.

Lennart

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