Volume Control Bring back 1-10 vs. DB level

[blruggles]

This new DB level display on volume controls is for the birds. Volume control should show 1-10 not DB level, at least allow a setting to display one or the other...

Can someone please tell the last time they have seen DB level on a volume knob on a Marshall Amp or Fender Telecaster?

I and I think most others are very disappointed in this trend.

If you want Hi Tec then simply add a built in Mic and have the receiver display the DB level it is detecting from your speakers...

Yamaha, Denon, Onkyo, Come on...

Maybe next year we can display Watt output level?!

 

[mnnc]

Actually...wattage output is really cool. The db thing is useful but mainly for movie reference. It really does not matter to most as they crank it as high or low as they wish regardless of the volume setting.

 

[Haoleb]

A volume control that has 10 steps.... That'd be something like this I suppose.... Mute, whisper quiet, quiet, elevator music, Normal, Sorta loud, Loud, LOUD, TOO LOUD!, TURN IT DOWN, ARE YOU DEAF?

Perhaps you should take time to enjoy some of the finer things in life, vs getting steamed over something so trivial.

 

[zhimbo]

Why is an arbitrary, non-standardized 1-10 scale preferable?

 

[ChrisJam]

Volume control should show 1-10 not DB level

Or 1-11.

Chris

 

[j_garcia]

Noting wrong with the way it is now. 1-10 still means you will have to have a bunch of "in between" steps, exactly the way it is now, because no two rooms are the same. 1-10 just won't cut it with receivers.

 

[MDS]

Some receivers do allow you to choose between absolute and relative volume displays. Onkyo 7xx receivers and above allow you to choose. It appears that the newest 6xx series (604, 674) no longer offer that option and use absolute only.