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[Conor Curran <conor.curran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We intend to accommodate over-amplifying in the next iteration of the 
sound settings. The plan is for when over-amplification is 'switched on' 
the slider in the menu will adhere to that scale. The design of the 
slider should reflect which scale it currently follows.
We were hoping to get this done for precise but different types of 
output and input device selection was more important to get working 
properly first.

Conor




On 23/03/12 11:08, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On 22/03/2012 00:57, gabriel pettier wrote:
> > 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.