mlsstl wrote: > Apologies to rkrug. > > Cliveb is correct. It is the digital volume control of the Touch that I > like to keep in its upper volume range when I'm listening critically. > Unlike digital volume controls, resistance based analog volume controls > don't directly lose resolution at their lower settings. The problem with > many analog volume controls is that they don't track accurately between > the left and right channels as you adjust them up and down. That can be > solved by using hard-wired resistors for a fixed reduction setting or > the more expensive variable potentiometers.
Yes but even the most expensive pot may not cut it in the lower range . So even a pot is best used in its upper range . I have only digital volume in my meridian setup, but correctly dithered so I'm not worried about resolution at all . Besides tracking 5.1 channels with analog volume that would be near impossible . You could say that you lose "resolution" in the lower range with a digital volume ,but if correctly dithered it behaves like an analog system the signal gently disappears in the noise floor no quantisation artifacts . A correctly dithered digital system and an analog one is analogues to each other ,but the digital one is more precise actually "perfect" . The squeezebox does not exactly do that in the very low volume range ,but with correct range range of gain in the rest of the system is so beyond our hearing ,the volume is very low anyway ( + self dither ? ) that I would not worry -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105611 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
