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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/03/2012 00:57, gabriel pettier wrote:
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> 
> 80% (which i believe is the currently displayed 100%) is where you usually get
> the most quality, so it's better to put it at that, and raise on the speakers…
> most speakers have a volume button, push this one…

What's currently displayed as 100% is "0dB", i.e. no amplification. Going past
100% has a positive dB value, and lower than 100% has a negative dB value.

I don't think that you're likely to fry your speakers when you go past 100% and
start using software amplification, but there is a high chance of getting the
peaks of the sound waves clipped due to integer/floating point limits, after
which you would start hearing popping sounds.

> assuming you are not on a laptop, though, sound is usually crappy on them anyway…

From my experience, only the integrated laptop speakers have crappy sound. Using
good headphones or external speakers on a laptop results in pretty good sound,
actually.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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