Following a link from a Steve Rosenberg tweet to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c2mmwx, I was delighted to find:

In the bottom left, there's a speaker symbol; if you hover just to the
right of it, you get a row of bars, to set the volume level; there's a
white one under the cursor (the page has a dark background), with orange
ones to the left and grey to the right. But there's also a number to the
right showing what level you've set.

It goes up to 11 (-:
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On 22/04/2022 11:53, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Following a link from a Steve Rosenberg tweet to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c2mmwx, I was delighted to find:

In the bottom left, there's a speaker symbol; if you hover just to the
right of it, you get a row of bars, to set the volume level; there's a
white one under the cursor (the page has a dark background), with orange
ones to the left and grey to the right. But there's also a number to the right showing what level you've set.

It goes up to 11 (-:

I once saw the [alleged] b/g to that and surprisingly found it again:

https://richardtitus.medium.com/repost-why-the-bbc-iplayer-goes-to-11-e3a2c785afcb

Still somehow feel it /ought/ to have been inspired by from H2G2


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On 22/04/2022 13:33, Robin wrote:

I once saw the [alleged] b/g to that and surprisingly found it again:

https://richardtitus.medium.com/repost-why-the-bbc-iplayer-goes-to-11-e3a2c785afcb

Can't access the page.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

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"John Williamson" <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:jcfnqfFngkmU1@mid.individual.net...

On 22/04/2022 13:33, Robin wrote:

I once saw the [alleged] b/g to that and surprisingly found it again:

https://richardtitus.medium.com/repost-why-the-bbc-iplayer-goes-to-11-e3a2c785afcb

Can't access the page.

Works OK for me, using Firefox on Windows 7.

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On 22/04/2022 14:39, NY wrote:

"John Williamson" <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:jcfnqfFngkmU1@mid.individual.net...

On 22/04/2022 13:33, Robin wrote:

I once saw the [alleged] b/g to that and surprisingly found it again:

https://richardtitus.medium.com/repost-why-the-bbc-iplayer-goes-to-11-e3a2c785afcb

Can't access the page.

Works OK for me, using Firefox on Windows 7.

I'm using Iron on Windoze 10.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

It goes up to 11 (-:

it always has, even on iPlayer

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On 22/04/2022 11:53, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Following a link from a Steve Rosenberg tweet to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c2mmwx, I was delighted to find:

In the bottom left, there's a speaker symbol; if you hover just to the
right of it, you get a row of bars, to set the volume level; there's a
white one under the cursor (the page has a dark background), with orange
ones to the left and grey to the right. But there's also a number to the right showing what level you've set.

It goes up to 11 (-:

The "goes up to 11" remark reminds me of a man I knew who bought a tinny plastic record player and seemed to think that the additions of a bass
control would enable it to reproduce the bass frequencies.

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Max Demian

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

It goes up to 11 (-:

it always has, even on iPlayer

Actually there is a bit of sense to that:

Most rotary switches have 12 click-stop positions so that switches can
be 1-pole 12-way or 2-pole 6-way or 3-pole 4-way or 4-pole 3-way or
6-pole 2-way. If the knobs for those switches are numbered, it is
logical to number them from 1 to 12.

When the knobs are used for volume potentiomenters that have a stop at
the '12' position to prevent continuous rotation, they will only go as
far as 11.


Another useless piece of information concerns the potentioneters used in
the BBC passive mixer, MX18. They were fitted with a 180-degree black
mask with a 180-degree white panel marking behind it, so that their
settings were easy to see at a glance.

If a similar masking system is used on modern pots which have a larger
angle of rotation, it is possible to use linear tracks and load them resistively in such a way that 'wide open' (180 degrees) is about 6dB
below the fully clockwise position. This means that normal mixing uses
the first 180 degrees of rotation in the usual way, but an extra 6dB is available to cope with unforseen circumstances by turning the knob past
its nominal 'wide open' position.

With a passive mixer this also loads down the other channels so that
their level drops by a few dB, which is often helpful in the
circumstances (...if you are used to the pecularities of a passive
mixer and are expecting it ! ).


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