MichaelJ wrote: > Gary, I'm curious...how did you arrive at 75% volume? I recall a > discussion where Pippin suggested that any volume over 18 on a touch > would pass a 16/44 file with no loss. > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?89228-Touch-Volume-Control-Quality&p=645562&viewfull=1#post645562 > I'm just trying to figure out how much attenuation I really need.
Nothing scientific. And I'm no engineer, but this is the way it has been explained to me by those that are. The squeezeboxes are are getting 24/x streams from the server. So a regular FLAC files is 16/44.1, but is being streamed as 24/44.1. The extra 8 bits can be used in digital volume adjustment without "losing" any bits from the 16/44.1 file. As you start reducing the volume too much you've moved beyond the 8 bits and may be losing quality. So my 75% is just a rule of thumb based on all this. I can reduce to 50% or even lower on listening to some things and not notice any difference. So it is not that critical. But if I'm doing "critical" listening, I set the digital volume to 100% and control volume with preamp. But even here I still leave RG on (although it is using Album gain at that point and intra song differences are maintained). p.s. I'm not sure what volume of 18 is percentage wise. I'm typically using squeezeplay or ipeng to control and seeing percentage not the 0-? scale on which the 18 is based. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96835 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
