You can and should probably use attenuators. I use Rothwell passive inline attenuators in my Home cinema to level out the disparate sensitivity among my different power amps, it's a common problem there is to much gain everywhere.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Connecting_directly_to_a_power_amplifier This list a bunch of commercial alternatives Or you can build your own . http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/DIY_passive_attenuation Maybe thats the best thing two resistors per channel on the inside of the headphone amp. Rothwell has -10dB and Golden jacks have -10 or -14dB . Other design may be switchable . This will make it sound even better you increase the S/N ratio as the Touchs volume will be higher and thus the signal farther from it's noise floor, you will also use the DAC in it's more linear domain . The Touch volume control is a 24bit digital volume so range should be very good normally when lowering the volume sound level would be so low that the potential lack of resolution will impossible to hear, but if the following amp has very high gain as your headphone amps seems to have you will "amplify" these imperfections out of proportion and potetially hear them . With a proper "gain structure" this will not be the case . So by for example inserting a -10dB attenuator you are increasing the system S/N ratio with 10dB ! Unfortunately the volume is active at both the digital out and the analog out at the same time, so for digital out you naturally want to keep the volume at 100% But the Touch is made to a price point so this may be a compromise we have to live with. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82715 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
