"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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Yes, but there's a massive variation in maximum groove velocity, from
say EMI 'Music for Pleasure' at one end, to the Sheffield Track and
Drum records at the other. Setting your system gain to avoid clipping
at 30cm/sec will make for very quiet listening to most commercial
output!

Are you saying that just because most modern CD's have peak levels very
close to Dfs, you *always* listen to them at the exact same peak SPL, day or
night?
Or do you actually use the volume control like most people, based on your
knowledge of recorded levels and the system gain structure that you have
already ascertained?

I simply refuse to believe that more than a handful of people do actually
"set and forget" the volume control, even with CD.

MrT.