[olug] Volume Control

[Brandon Lederer]

Opps I meant 83 and 86....   Fat finger there.    But that doesnt get me 
any closer to the answer.

My car can do a 140 dB.... not that anyone cares!  and Ive withnessed a 
few cars do a 165+ dB

Eric Penne wrote:

>88dB is 4 times 83dB.
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>>One of my largest complaints about linux, still, is the volume control.
>>The  volume control is a Linear volume control.  People do not hear
>>Linearly, we  hear logrithmically.  For instance, 88 DB is twice as loud
>>as 83 DB...  it  grows really fast, getting loud quickly.  Therfore the
>>Linear gain makes  nothing make any sound for the first 3/4s of the
>>volume control.  The last  1/4 is so touchy you cant get the volume you
>>want.  What is needed is a  Reverse logrithmic volume control.  To  give
>>the first 1/4 of the volume  control very coarse linear granularity and
>>the last 3/4 of the volume control  fine granularity.  This is obviously
>>how it is done most other places,  because you appear to be turning up
>>the volume linearly, but you are actually  turning up the volume reverse
>>logrithm (or something close).
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>>Does anyone know of a  way to make the volume control better?  This is
>>highly  annoying.
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