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Originally Posted by Bretzy1990 /t/1527078/something-wrong-with-avr#post_24600474
Okay so you would reccomend me calibrating it via microphone. Will it allow me to with just the 2 speakers? And it should help with the volume level?
the volume control setting doesn't matter, so it will neither help nor hurt. To get "too loud" (at 85 dB test tones, consumers complained so manufacturers changed to 75 dB test tones) at 85 dB is not going to take more than a watt or two. the speakers react to voltage, not to the volume control readout (they actually cannot see the volume control readout, onaccounta they don't have eyes). It will take the exact same amount of power to achieve that SPL whether your volume control says 20 or 90. to get twice as loud (at 95 dB) will take ten times more power, so up to 20 watts,say. I don't ever listen above -10 dB from reference, so that's all the power I ever need. If I was not calibrated to reference, I would use the exact same amount of power whether my volume control readout said 50 or 90. To play back at normal conversation level (around 65 dB) likely uses all of .02 watts. Again, regardless of volume control setting. Speakers WILL play as loud as the incoming voltage (power) tells them to, and no louder or quieter, and the volume control setting number, unless you know it's set up to refer to some real SPL or power, simply means zero. Zero. Means nothing.