I had the same dream, until I tried it... :( I learned that I needed some kind of signal attenuation between my SB and the power amps I was using. S/N of the SB goes to hell if you use the digital volume control to reduce volume. I tried it, it was not good with NuForce 9SE, not that they are very good either, but they did amplify a lot of noise from SB to a very noticeable degree when I have the digital volume turned down to listenable levels.
The SB volume control controls DSP reduction of the amplitude of the waveform before it hits the DAC. So the music gets reduced in volume, but the analog noise from plasma display and whatever else is noisy in there is not reduced with the volume control and is easy to hear through a powerful amp when music is turned down and noise remains loud. Use the SB like a CD player, full volume straight into a preamp for volume control for the best sound. The Transporter has some presets to attenuate the analog output cleanly, so full volume on that wil not be too loud for your amps. But you will have to disable those when you do want full volume. Plus its analog output stage will be very quiet, so S/N will stay higher with DSP volume reduction. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26241 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
