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Old 30th July 2010   #5
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Originally Posted by cjac9 View Post
Anyone know how SPL from speakers correlates to headphones or do you guys just feel it out? It would be cool to match my monitor controller settings for my headphone amp.
Quantification of this seems silly to me. Adjust the volume knob so that it is present but never painful. To me it's not like headphones are ever all that useful for making things like equalization decisions that you need to have them set at a "calibrated" level.

Getting a general sense of where your headphone amp's volume knob usually gets set to for most program material can be a helpful thing to have though.

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