Big meters may look 'cool', but I'd like to know what benefits to the sound they offer.Originally Posted by occamsrazor
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Big meters may look 'cool', but I'd like to know what benefits to the sound they offer.
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Ah c'mon, VU meters are cool!
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That's all that matters.
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”
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You can't hear any benefits , but hey if you can fit them why not!
Meters are for information only and look very cool. Even the wife likes them, it's not alive without them.
I find them helpful, when calibrated correctly, to show the level of the recording.
What with a loudness war happening.
I have them showing the output from my Dac before the stepped attenuators.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2xPanel-VU...item234142f740
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VU meters still make little boys hearts melt.
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I have an amp with loverly blue VU's, as a generally play music at low level, the Power VU's hardly budge. hence a total waste of time.
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They're a waste of time anyway. No mechanical meters react quickly enough to show what is really going on. At best you may get an 'average' picture. Just something else to go wrong.
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VU or power meters are essential in any system (the more the better!) and anyone who says otherwise is simply in denial. I've just bought this so I have not two, but FOUR on my rack now!
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There must be a name for this condition Adam. I'm not sure there's a cure though.VU or power meters are essential in any system (the more the better!) and anyone who says otherwise is simply in denial. I've just bought this so I have not two, but FOUR on my rack now!
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My wife has a few names for it; all of them rude...
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