rx7_fan
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85 SPL for 4 hours of continuous use.
Originally Posted by steel102 in a fairly quiet room, i find volume 1 on my karma to be too loud, and even the lowest volume setting on the ipod (you can't even see any grey color on the volume bar) is too loud. |
Originally Posted by gorman ... I am very surprised by this statement. Volume 1 on Karma equals a -58 dB attenuation. Now... UE-10, which are very efficient phones, on a song with more or less average loudness (consindering today's unfortunate standards), let's say 95dB measured with ReplayGain, would be playing at 57 dB average level (Karma with UE-10 tends to reach an average SPL similar to what's measured by ReplayGain at volume 20 out of 30, and every step is -2dB). 57dB is less than conversational speech (http://home.new.rr.com/trumpetb/audio/dBexamp.html)... how can it be too loud? |
Originally Posted by exkgb I have mine nearly @ Max on an ipod nano. Using the super inefficient IM716 at the moment. |