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Exactly! Some times I just don't get it. Better to ask and sound foolish than be a fool forever.

Or:

"Better to keep ones mouth shut and be thought a fool; than to open it and erase all doubt!"

My other favorite is:

"The only stupid question is the one that's not asked"

Hey! It's all good!

Or, for this Canadian holiday:

It's all good, eh!

OK, so now I'm more confused than ever. Which probably doesn't take much any more. Reading all the posts and thinking about how often I run my music at -15 to -10 or even louder, are my ears gone or is my system not set properly. I recently raised my fronts, center and sub to +3 and my surrounds to +5 through my receiver but haven't had a chance to test this difference yet. Hello.. what did you say?? I can't hear ya!!!

cgolf: bottom line is forget this discussion and just enjoy your system. The readings don't mean anything!!!!

If you really want to know how loud your system is, get a radio shack meter and measure it.

Have a GREAT weekend.

Your are EXACTLY right!!!

What I do, and it's worked well for me for years, is set the lowest reading speaker to "0" and everything else "up" from there.

Does ot help? I dunno, but at least I know I'm not attenuating anything, and I'm not asking any nondiscript and ununderstood(is that a word?)circuit to do anything heroic on my account.

That, plus the fact that my Onkyo can also be set to an absolute reading of zero to a hundred, and if I get up much past eighty, I get nervous.

And can't hear, either!!

>>OK, so now I'm more confused than ever. Which probably doesn't take much any more. Reading all the posts and thinking about how often I run my music at -15 to -10 or even louder, are my ears gone or is my system not set properly.

Like everyone else says, don't worry about it. I normally listen to music around -20 and movies around -10, but for "loud music" (when circumstances permit) I can end up close to 0dB and occasionally higher. This is on an HK630 in good condition.

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Like everyone else says, don't worry about it. I normally listen to music around -20 and movies around -10, but for "loud music" (when circumstances permit) I can end up close to 0dB and occasionally higher. This is on an HK630 in good condition.

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John I hooked up my Rotel amp & 80s to the preouts on the 635 and was getting high 90s on the spl with the dial set in the mid twenties on the 635 (stereo mode)...don't think I'd be able get it down to '0' without substantial hearing loss occuring.

Well, MINE go all the way up to 11!!! HA HA