On Tue, 15.04.08 00:47, Rene Herman (rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > The dB scale is a _relative_ scale. To make any sense there needs to be > > No, it is not. Oh, really? It's not a relative scale anymore? Ouch, what a mess. Now I went to university and stuff, and now it turns out that they were totally wrong and dB ain't no relative scale anymore. I want my money back! Dude, hush, hush, fix Wikipedia! It still says: "The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of measurement that expresses the magnitude of a physical quantity _relative_ _to_ a specified or implied _reference_ _level_". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel