mat holton wrote: > So I'm wrong about hi-fi's displaying dB scale. There are also > audiophile's that spend £50 on a piece of speaker-cable or buy little > boxes to rest speaker their cable on. These kind of people would > probably appreciate a dB scale.
I think it's the other way round: those who appreciate a dB scale have the technical knowledge to avoid speaker-cables for £50. After all, every professional mixing desk has a dB scale. > Most, I'm guessing, would prefer to not > have to deal with negative numbers. I guess most don't care at all, perhaps some are wondering why the numbers are negative. I have an everyday example why a 0-100 scale is bad: I own a AJR20 and a H340 and use both in combination with my hi-fi (which has no scale at all, only dots btw.) and different headphones. If I want to connect either one to my hi-fi, I simply adjust the volume to 0dB. Before the dB-scale was introduced, I had to remember that 0dB are 92% on the AJR20 and something else on the H340. Therefore, a common scale on every device is indisputable A Good Idea (TM). I don't want to stretch the discussion too much as you already wrote that you don't care, but I could give you good reasons why the dB-scale is the best selection for a common scale and I'm happy we have it! Andreas