seanadams Wrote: > I just put something simple in there to make it work... open to better > ideas. > > Dean, Vidur and I have been talking about volume control in general - > there's a lot more to it than meets the eye, once you consider > crossfading, replaygain, headphone use, amp use, etc. Right now the > sofware volume control uses an 8-bit linear value which by itself > doesn't give enough levels on the low end of the scale. With this > additional "preamp" control (7 bits of half decibels, done in the DAC) > it should solve the problem for those who've been stuck on the low end > of the bar with not enough resolution. But yes, the UI is a bit > abstruse. How about just a pop-up list with "quiet", "not so quiet", > "loud", "eleven"? :) If you want to make use of all 128 steps in the digital control then a more intuitive interface might be to simply enter an integer from 1 to 128 (maximum) (or perhaps 0 to 127) and explain that at the maximum setting the signal is unaltered and that each step below the max gives 0.5db of attenuation.
If the DAC offers 128 discrete steps of volume control, have you considered the possibility (maybe as an option) of reversing the roles of the software volume control and the DAC's digital volume control so that we'd have the option of controlling volume in the digital domain? -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
