Approved gong voicing: 220Hz fundamental, fatter mids, -7dBFS at vol 75

User verdict: audible and butler-non-intrusive on the bare 2W speaker.
Recorded as the house sound signature in architecture.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

firmware/main/desklock_main.c

@@ -23,15 +23,15 @@ static const char *TAG = "desklock";
 #define GONG_RATE 16000
 #define GONG_SECONDS 5
 #define GONG_SAMPLES (GONG_RATE * GONG_SECONDS)
-#define GONG_VOLUME 58     /* codec volume: discreet, not loud */
-#define GONG_PEAK 8000.0f  /* ~-12 dBFS headroom */
+#define GONG_VOLUME 75     /* codec volume: discreet, not loud */
+#define GONG_PEAK 14000.0f /* ~-7 dBFS headroom */
 
 /* A distant temple gong in a stone space.
  *
  * Inharmonic partials with per-partial decay (lows ring for seconds, highs
  * die fast), a detuned fundamental pair for slow shimmer, a soft 45 ms
  * attack so the strike reads as far away, and three early reflections that
- * stand in for cathedral walls. Fundamental sits at 165 Hz — low enough to
+ * stand in for cathedral walls. Fundamental sits at 220 Hz — low enough to
  * feel voluminous, high enough for the bare 2 W speaker to reproduce.
  */
 static const struct {
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ static const struct {
     float amp;
     float tau; /* seconds to 1/e */
 } gong_partials[] = {
-    { 1.000f, 0.34f, 2.6f },
+    { 1.000f, 0.30f, 2.6f },
     { 1.004f, 0.22f, 2.2f }, /* beating partner -> shimmer */
-    { 1.590f, 0.16f, 1.4f },
-    { 2.140f, 0.11f, 0.9f },
-    { 2.760f, 0.08f, 0.55f },
+    { 1.590f, 0.22f, 1.4f },
+    { 2.140f, 0.16f, 0.9f },
+    { 2.760f, 0.10f, 0.55f },
     { 3.570f, 0.05f, 0.35f },
     { 4.800f, 0.03f, 0.22f },
 };
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void play_boot_gong(void)
     }
 
     for (size_t p = 0; p < sizeof(gong_partials) / sizeof(gong_partials[0]); p++) {
-        float step = 2.0f * (float)M_PI * 165.0f * gong_partials[p].ratio / GONG_RATE;
+        float step = 2.0f * (float)M_PI * 220.0f * gong_partials[p].ratio / GONG_RATE;
         float decay = expf(-1.0f / (gong_partials[p].tau * GONG_RATE));
         float env = gong_partials[p].amp;
         float phase = 0.0f;