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Pneumonic;363198 Wrote: > I would submit then that this is an issue that should be fixed? > > Plenty of companies have designed digital volume controlled preamps > that don't suffer this problem. Maybe bring in some Wadia designers to > get it right? I still don't know if I'd gamble the entire audio link on whatever high probability of a malfunction never happening in the digital domain. CMOS settings will get wiped out here and there, bits shall flip there and here, and voila, 0db happens and the exotic alloy cones in your $10k+ speakers are blown to a geostationary orbit... Even if it was a Wadia product I would not do it, unless they provide (as the Transporter does) an internal real very analog attenuation that can be set to protect the rest of the chain. At least that way it can only get unpleasantly loud, and not destructively over-driven... -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo Vista Ultimate 64 Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom (2), Duet, Accuphase DP65v Amplification: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Tuned and self-built Ceeroy 3 way Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55246 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
