cribeiro
Prominent Member
Hi!
Now that I have an SPL meter, I start checking and seeing which are my preferred levels, and so on...
Yesterday I thought "hey, I wonder since long time ago how loud is reference level, and now I can check it". So I went home and played some music with the SPL monitoring the sound levels. Before, I had searched here for SPL and reference, to know what should I measure, but most reference to test tones in dvd discs like AVIA, and I didn't get one yet. What I know is that I should get 105 dB peaks with a Dolby Digital movie, and yes, that is a lot, compared to what I have measured...
Anyway, can somebody tell me how are the test tones in the Yamaha rx-v530 implemented, in order to get the reference level? Are they also 20 dB attenuated, like the AVIA disc, or 30 dB attenuated like the DVE? Or something else?
In short... What should I read in my spl meter when playing Yamaha test tones, to know that I hit reference?
I don't believe I should read 85 dB (C curve, slow), because that is WAY too loud, even compared to THX cinemas... If so, I would need to push up the level in the amp to read -18 dB on the amp screen (more or less, I don't remember exactly). Apart from the fact that it is more than half way of the knob, so I get more noise than music...
Now that I have an SPL meter, I start checking and seeing which are my preferred levels, and so on...
Yesterday I thought "hey, I wonder since long time ago how loud is reference level, and now I can check it". So I went home and played some music with the SPL monitoring the sound levels. Before, I had searched here for SPL and reference, to know what should I measure, but most reference to test tones in dvd discs like AVIA, and I didn't get one yet. What I know is that I should get 105 dB peaks with a Dolby Digital movie, and yes, that is a lot, compared to what I have measured...
Anyway, can somebody tell me how are the test tones in the Yamaha rx-v530 implemented, in order to get the reference level? Are they also 20 dB attenuated, like the AVIA disc, or 30 dB attenuated like the DVE? Or something else?
In short... What should I read in my spl meter when playing Yamaha test tones, to know that I hit reference?
I don't believe I should read 85 dB (C curve, slow), because that is WAY too loud, even compared to THX cinemas... If so, I would need to push up the level in the amp to read -18 dB on the amp screen (more or less, I don't remember exactly). Apart from the fact that it is more than half way of the knob, so I get more noise than music...