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Originally Posted by Gogar View Post
Uh, no Terry. The actual SPL of your system will vary quite a bit with speakers of different efficiency. The "O dB" etc. stuff inside the receiver has very little to do with dB in SPL (sound pressure level) terms.

hmmm.. I thought that was exactly what I just said.

zero is used for reference calibration

edit: Each speaker is calibrated to 75 or 85db(dependent on your manual) with SPL meter with the volume set to 0db running test tones. This is how I understood it was done.

Obviously with a real signal through the system you could be over 100db with the dial at 0db.
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