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

On Tue, 15.04.08 00:47, Rene Herman (rene.herman@keyaccess.nl) wrote:

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The dB scale is a _relative_ scale. To make any sense there needs to be

No, it is not.

Oh, really? It's not a relative scale anymore? Ouch, what a mess. Now I went to university and stuff, and now it turns out that they were totally wrong and dB ain't no relative scale anymore. I want my money back!

Dude, hush, hush, fix Wikipedia! It still says: "The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of measurement that expresses the magnitude of a physical quantity _relative_ _to_ a specified or implied _reference_ _level_".

Lennart