Talk:Loudness compensation

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Volume[edit]

"This is intended to be used at low listening levels, to compensate for the fact that as the volume of audio decreases..."

The above sentence in this article mentions "volume" - i.e. the technically (etymologically) inaccurate term for sound level. However it points (obviously) to the actual article on volume - i.e the scientific term for the three dimensional space occupied by an object. The problem is, I can't find any Wikipedia article on volume/sound level in the context of electronic audio equipment. _ɹəə pıɔnı 19:23, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Volume control is a disambiguation. Volume will be most familiar to readers since that's how the knob is labeled. We could change volume to loudness or sound pressure but neither is a clear improvement IMO. ~Kvng (talk) 17:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is my observation that since the 1950's or so and extending to the present (2023), hi-fi and stereo amplifiers and receivers that have a control labeled Loudness also have a loudness compensator circuit, which circuit usually contains a switch to allow the user to engage or defeat the loudness compensator circuit. However hi-fi and stereo amplifiers that have a control labeled Volume do not have a loudness compensator circuit. I believe there are very few exceptions to this rule. However, I can find no documentation of a standard or industry convention that documents this labeling policy. If anyone can document this as an industry standard or accepted practice, that would be a good thing to add to the article on Loudness Compensaton. (There are a few units that have both a Volume and a Loudness control. Yamaha made a number of these models but they were not the only ones. Usually the volume control calibrated the loudness control or vice versa.) This observation does to apply to table radios, audio systems for computers or "gaming computers," car radios, Sonos, etc. It applies to consumer equipment targeted at audiophiles. Doug iowa (talk) 04:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I say leave it as volume in the text but fix the link to go direct to the loudness article. It is an oddity that that article doesn't even mention the usage of the word volume though Gjxj (talk) 17:54, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]