[Irrivirsible]

Recently in Best Buy the Onkyo 709 is at plus 77 and the Denon 2313 was I believe -3 and sounded similar. Is there a difference in the way the volume controls work between the 2 or is the Onkyo short on power?

 

[pronghorn/az]



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Originally Posted by Irrivirsible /forum/post/20821657


Recently in Best Buy the Onkyo 709 is at plus 77 and the Denon 2313 was I believe -3 and sounded similar. Is there a difference in the way the volume controls work between the 2 or is the Onkyo short on power?

It's how the volume set up is in the menu of a receiver. Mine is at THX specs if you will that shows the volume a minus whatever number the volume is at. Reference volume for me with my Integra 40.2 shows appox. -45 give or take.


Jeff

 

[jdsmoothie]

Denon has two volume scales ... "relative" (-88db to +18db) and "absolute" (0 to 99) so a -3db would be equivalent to 78 when set to absolute.

 

[Audiodork]

Hello,

Onkyo has started doing the same and now at least since the x08, the Default Volume Setting is Absolute. In my TX-SR805, TX-SR875, TX-NR3007 the Default Volume Setting was Relative (THX).


Personally, I did switch to Relative as I have been using this Setting for at least 8-9 Years. I am surprised Onkyo switched this which I assume has carried over to the latest x09 Series.

Cheers,

AD

 

[MichaelJHuman]

I would never assume you can translate 0 to 99 to a dB scale of any kind. Who knows what the math looks like internally.


I hope I never own a receiver that uses 0 to 99. At least the dB scale has some meaning.

 

[jdsmoothie]

No need to "assume" with Denon as it's a 1:1 relationship.

 

[EaglePC]

good question and topic ,I have the Onkyo 709 ,I have to put volume @ -3db to +10db to get a good beefy loud sound watching movies it is in reference thx volume mode , not much more the volume would go, Intelvolume helps at times then get distorted , and dynamic eq light don't sound right.