Mnyb wrote: > What this mean is that on low volume you of course sacrifice bits ,but > then the volume IS actually low so you would never hear them from your > listening position anyway.
Looking at it in another way, you don't actually sacrifice bits - you just don't gain any extra resolution when turning down the volume. The size of the smallest possible "step" stays the same, and thus the noise floor stays the same (but please don't think of the DAC output as a set of stairs - one of the most common fallacies in digital audio). So when you turn down the volume, the quantization noise stays the same, but the signal volume goes down, thus SNR goes down - but you still either hear the noise, or you don't. If you don't hear it at full volume, you won't heard it at lower volume either. Yes, I know, I am definitely picking nits, but I just don't want to allow for any room to propagate the "digital volume control is detrimental to sound quality" myth... :) And let's not get into the subject of dithering... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
