No, and frankly, I've often wondered the same thing.
It is especially confusing since the decibel scale is logrithmic as opposed to linear.
In other words, when measuring sound energy, every 10 decibels is represents a tenfold in increased sound energy. This means going from say 60dB to 80dB does NOT represent a 20 fold increase in energy, but rather a hundred fold increase (60 to 70 = 10 fold, 70 to 80 = 10 fold, 60 to 80 = 10x10 = 100 fold).
So anyway, it appears to me to be a linear relationship when I crank the knob on my stereo, so I really don't get inverse dB's as a stereo volume scaler.
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