Some recordings are very quiet others very loud. Sometimes I don't want to listen at a loud volume. I tend to use 30-65 most of the time but I occasionally need say 20-80. I don't want a physical preamp. Therefore I expect my digital volume to be blameless. 80-90 is not a realistic use case, far too narrow. (BTW I'd avoid above 90 in any event to give my DAC DSP headroom for upsampling/ASRC.)
Obviously better than any attenuation is getting the gain structure right. I've done all I can on that front, that was step one. As we know, noise is far far more benign than distortion. I'd rather dither everything than have bit perfection but only for 16 bit and only certain volume levels. The volume control should be dithered! You can argue all you like about audibility but technically you know dithered would be better. Check it, add to it! http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/ SB Touch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
