"Pooh Bear" wrote
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Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Actually, it's a piece of **** if you're using CD as a
source, since you can set system gain to sit just below
clipping for 0dB FS from the CD. That's what I do with
my '50 watt' Krell.

Very true.

If you knew the settings for the cutter lathe you could
do the same for vinyl too, despite some audiophools not
understanding this point ( they think it has unlimited
dynamic range it seems ! ).

Setting levels for vinyl playback or transcription is similarly pretty easy.

Get a trackbility test LP such as the one from Hi Fi News and set levels so
that you can play the highest trackable segment while leaving a few dB for
headroom throrgh the electronics. It's really a similar thing to the
procedure that was suggested for a system with a CD player.