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Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control

(jamesbvaughan.com)
287 points jamesbvaughan | 1 comments | 25 Jul 24 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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KolmogorovComp ◴[27 Jul 24 07:29 UTC] No.41085009[source]▶
This begs the question, why buy oversized speakers of which you can only use 10% of the range instead of smaller speakers?

Is the sound quality better when not approaching to maximum volume?

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poisonborz ◴[27 Jul 24 08:43 UTC] No.41085280[source]▶
You can't buy quality sounding speakers without them being high powered.
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KolmogorovComp ◴[27 Jul 24 08:58 UTC] No.41085339[source]▶
Do you mean physically, or as in there's no market for high-quality low-powered ones?
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1. poisonborz ◴[27 Jul 24 10:52 UTC] No.41085698[source]▶
Both. To fill a larger room with enough balanced sound with all types of music implies enough headroom that most of the time it will be overpowered. Also everybody would take a mostly overpowered speaker over a sometimes underpowered one.

The "small quality speakers" category is filled by decent bluetooth speakers and a few pc/desktop 2.0 models.