This discussion is very interesting. My guess is the numbers don't really correspond to any particular value. The designer probably thought the fairly technical numbers gave the front panel a feeling of "technicality."
Kind of like deciding to make the volume knob go from 1-11 rather than 1-10. It doesn't really mean much, other than you can expect the bigger numbers to be louder than the smaller numbers. In the years that I sold and repaired consumer sound equipment, turning any of the volume knobs past about 1 or 2 o'clock didn't do anything but add more distortion. The guys in the shop always used to laugh at the amps and receivers that came in for repair. The majority of them came in with blown output transistors. You could almost predict the Bass knob would be all the way up. The Treble knob would be all the way down. And the loudness feature would be turned on. Most of these people said they wanted their music to sound "good." The them, as long as it thumped real loud, it sounded good. George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
