What happened to the loudness control?


Why have they stopped using them on equipment? I miss the loudness control. Does anyone else?
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Showing 1 response by donbellphd

IIRC the old Fletcher-Munson curves were superceded decades ago by a study by Robinson and Dadson (spelling may be wrong) which provides more accurate correction for changes in hearing sensitivity at lower sound levels. Of course, these are data averaged over lots of listeners, and your level-specific sensitivity is likely to be a bit different. You could have a simple audiogram to get an idea of your sensitivity across the spectrum, but that wouldn't tell you about your relative growth of loudness across the spectrum at various sound levels.

An equalizer set the way you like it seems more appropriate. I fear the god of audio purity may strike me for writing that.

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