I remember there being a big blowup about the LFE track on the original Video Essentials DVD versus the Digital Video Essentials DVD. Joe Kane's website says this:


"In setting audio levels we’ve discovered that there is a difference between the LFE channel in VE and DVE. Which is correct?

Measuring low bass information turned out to be more complicated than we though when we created Video Essentials back in 1996. In all of the other channels we can trust the metering used in the editing system, but not with the low bass information found in the LFE channel. In VE we used the editing systems’ meter to determine the level in the LFE channel. In DVE we made careful spectral measurements of that audio, applying the C weighting curve that is used in acoustic meters to measure the audio level in that track. The level on DVE is designed to be correct when you are measuring the level with an acoustic meter. The meter should be in the C weighting position with a slow response. The difference between the two discs is 2 dB, with DVE being higher than VE."


I use the original Video Essentials. Does the info from Joe Kane's website mean rather than setting my sub to 75dB on the SPL meter I should set my sub to 73 dB or 77dB since it's two dB off?

Thanks,
Steve

77 db