A quick question for those in the know:

The volume knob on my 950 goes from +10 to -80 and reads in dB, so the total volume range is 90 dB.

Now, we know that every 3 dB represents a doubling of power, so that's a total of 30 doublings.

People who work with computers know that ten doublings (2^10) is roughly a thousand. So, that's three of those, or a range of roughly 1,000,000,000. In actuality, it's more: about 1.07 billion.

Does this really mean that the 950 can attenuate a signal, accurately, by a factor of over a billion? That doesn't seem quite right.


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Matthew J. Hill
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