There are two different issues here, and I think they might be causing some confusion. One is whether information is lost when you lower the volume; in other words, is it possible to reconstitute the original signal from the signal with lowered volume? The answer to this in the case of the SB (and probably TP) is that there is a certain range from 100 down for which this is possible, but that below some setting it isn't any longer (I think this is 35dB, so to lowest setting is 30 on the 100 point scale). But of course this is not a question of much practical interest.
Another question is signal/noise ratio of the signal going to a DAC. In that case the issue above is probably tototally unimportant, and the only issue is how much of the dynamic range of the DAC is being used. Any digital signal with lower than max volume will suffer reduced S/N, and it shouldn't matter much, if at all, if it is slightly below 30 or slightly above 30. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30916 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
