[LAU] digital volume sounds better at 0 dB?

[Clemens Ladisch]

Bearcat M. Şandor wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 22:41 +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> > The chip used in your soundcard has a digital gain control
> > with a range of 0...-120 dB in steps of 0.5 dB. Does that
> > correspond to what alsamixer is showing ?
> 
> Alsamixer reports "dB gain 0.00, 0.00" to -60.00, -60.00 in .5 dB steps.

I removed the lower half of the range because I got complaints that the
controls were unusable in alsamixer (which uses a linear dB-to-screen
mapping at the moment).


Regards,
Clemens