I'm so used to low-fi and my old receiver that has a volume knob that goes from 0 to 10. Well I get a new HK 240 and I turn it on before I have the speakers hooked up to check if it works,(it was dented in shipping, thanks UPS), so the volume display shows dB and I still wasn't clear what that meant so I set it to "ZERO" and turn it off. When I hooked up my speakers and turned it on to my favorite Rush CD, my daughter nearly fell off the couch and my two cats flew out of the room. It was funny. Now I understand dB. The speakers are great by the way.
There's a Spinal Tap joke in there somewhere.
My two earlier Onkyos' used the older linear scale as well. But my newer one uses both linear AND db as an option.
Thankfully the default is linear, or I would have preceeded you with this anticdote!
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anticdote
ant•
ic•
dote
noun
a short and amusing story about ants
Or ants considering a fish disease while looking for food in a residence with an unhealthy aquarium.
Why are we talking about anticdotes? Did someone get a poisonous snake bite?
an·tic·dotes,
noun - those who are excessively fond of playful, silly, or ludicrous acts. (Oh Oh! We may have a few board members who fit that definition!
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Now we need definitions for:
at·tic·dotes?
ant·arc·tic·dotes?
an·ti·tic·dotes?
ant•arc•tic•dote
noun
A fancier of frozen insects and circle pieces who is afflicted with involuntary muscle spasms.
at-tic-dote noun
One who has an extreme fondness for the highest enclosed area in a structure.
an•ec•dolt
noun
someone who repeatedly tells a boring story
No, no,
the accurate definition is the antonymn of fcapio
