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Moving from EE to audio to radio is enough to go through a few iterations of "people just write dB but mean completely different things". I got used to it, but that doesn't stop me from saying it's a bad idea and we should improve things for the next person.


Audio, the only gotcha I’ve seen is that -10 is -10 dBu and +4 is +4 dBV. That one is sloppy.

But this comment doesn’t illustrate your point, and I still don’t really understand where you’re seeing this.


Yeah exactly. Lots of people here can't seem to distinguish between "thing that I'm used to" and "thing that is good practice".

But these are totally different. I'm used to and thus comfortable with lots of things that are nonetheless terrible!




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