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   Scott Dorsey to hank alrich   
   Re: Questions on Levels   
   20 Nov 10 13:47:54   
   
   XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   hank alrich  wrote:   
   >   
   >I think the answer is one he was not expecting, and like many engineers   
   >who are appreciably rational, the irrational aspect of an audio metering   
   >system in which the measured level increments need bear no specific   
   >relationship to the corresponding analog signal levels is disturbing to   
   >him.   
      
   I don't see what's irrational about that, because the way we think about   
   analogue and digital levels are so totally different.  They really are   
   different things.   
   --scott   
      
      
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