DCtoDaylight;135099 Wrote: > Bad Designer! Bad Designer! > > Why on earth would you put the volume control in the digital side? > Well ok, I know why, it's really cheap to do it that way. > It also means as you turn the volume down, you turn the distortion > up. IMHO, it's just the wrong place to do it. There are very > good digital volume control chips, which can be placed downstream > of the DAC, and frankly, that's where the volume control should > be done.... > > That's one strike against the Transporter being a true hi end device. If you feel it's a suboptimal design, don't use the digital volume control. Either run the analog outs into a preamp or an integrated or else use the digital outs. It's no worse of a design than any of the hundreds of ultra-high-end players and transports that have no volume control at all.
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