[LAU] digital volume sounds better at 0 dB?

[Bearcat M. Sandor]

Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Clemens,

Thanks for the clarification.  I had wondered about that.

Bearcat M. Sandor
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