In Reply to: Re: Understanding the volume knob... posted by kotches on January 3, 2002 at 08:14:35:
[you wrote]
When you calibrate your system using internal test tones, you calibrate all speakers to 75dB[my continued confusion]
So when I sit down with my radio shack SPL digital meter, (sitting on my camera tripod at ear level beside my cofa), and turn on the test tones in my Marantz SR19EX I find I have to turn the volume knob up to say -10db on the display and the RS meter is saying roughly 75db, (+-3db), at each speaker. I then adjust each channel independantly to obtain the 75db reading at each speaker. Life is good, go enjoy....What the end result of this exercise is that I have adjusted the system for best surround balance, but with regard to the volume knob I have, (hopefully), balanced the volume output such that a 0db setting on the SR19EX results in a possible "refernce level" as you mentioned above?
Correct?
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- Re: Understanding the volume knob... - JimH 08:56:18 01/03/02 (11)
- Re: Understanding the volume knob... - kotches 10:47:11 01/03/02 (10)
- reference volume, room size, listening position? - bstan 10:54:54 01/03/02 (9)
- Re: reference volume, room size, listening position? - kotches 11:36:17 01/03/02 (8)
- Interesting - bstan 13:07:10 01/03/02 (7)
- Re: Interesting - bmar 20:45:15 01/05/02 (5)
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- Re: Come again - kotches 22:29:24 01/06/02 (1)
- Re: Come again - bmar 15:35:14 01/07/02 (0)
- Re: Interesting - kotches 13:20:20 01/03/02 (0)