Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:58 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> > Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all
> > the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound settings.
> > It would really like to see an option like that in Gnome-Shell as well.
> > Since 100% is only 2/3 up what is possibly to set I often have to go
> > into sound setting to get it loud enough my laptops and a couple of
> > desktop systems as well.
> This is a UI failure. It doesn't make sense to set sound over 100%.

Why?  Isn't it at some point amplification?  It seems perfectly
sensible; not all recordings are made at the same level, so the concept
of output volume is always a mutable one.