Pat Farrell;205800 Wrote: > It is a retro look, and when you used analog VU meters, they were damped > > and would go over 0.
No. That's not right. In an old analog device, 0dB usually represents a threshold value of some sort. Usually this value is set for the level when distortion reaches a certain treshold value. For a tape deck, the distortion would vary depending on the tape used. Some tapes could take several dB in excess without audible impact. In a digital world, 0dB represents the maximum signal. The meter range should end right there, as you cannot exceed 0dB digitally as you can in an analog electric signal. I LOVE the retro-style meters, by why can't the dB-values be accurate??? If I spend $2,000 on a digital device, I would expect the designers to have the knowledge to get simple things like this right, or am I missing something? Thanks, Peter -- pnielsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pnielsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11801 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
