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Originally Posted by jefrs
An audio pot, A250k, is the one that bleeds off the sound too quickly, at half way you are down to 1/10 the signal voltage - you want linear volume pots B250k, they allow you to bleed off treble without losing much volume until about a third of the way down. The Linear pot allows fine control of the volume.
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This is true of voltage, but not of volume the way the human ear hears it. Linear taper is actually perceived as a hump, and a linear pot would function more like an on/off switch, with most of the volume coming in the earliest part of the rotation.