Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
Meters have never appealed to me. They don't improve sound quality and analogue ones are too slow to give real time info.
At last - someone else who is not keen on meters, apart from those used on recording equipment. They are distracting and serve no obvious purpose on power amplifiers. McIntosh are obsessed with them, to the extent of fitting one on their turntable to display the rpm.

Regarding the ballistics of analogue meters, VU meters are, as you say, too slow, but PPM (peak programme meters) as developed and used by the BBC have a fast rise time with a slower fall-back time are much better.