Mnyb <mnyb.7fz...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> writes: > 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 .
So in other words: the attenuators (or actually the mute button which is in the amp) should make a difference. I think I am getting closer to understand all this and will switch the mute button on again... > > 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" . OK. I can follow this argument. > > 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 As I said - the volume control on iPeng is always in the upper third - so I should have no problem there. If I now switch the Mute on on my amplifier, the volume setting is also in the upper half - so in the middle of the potentiometer. Thanks for all this, I have learned quite a bit, Rainer > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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