I think Patrick is the best person to answer that one! Here's what he said earlier on in this thread (this is why I said "bit-perfect" - is "full digital resolution" the same thing???):
Patrick Dixon;141917 Wrote: > The DAC is 24-bit resolution whilst most music (CDs) is stored as > 16-bits. Therefore if you volume control digitally within the 24-bits > of the DAC (ie providing you don't allow any rounding of bits 25 and > below to occur), you always maintain full digital resolution (*). > > What you do suffer is a degraded SNR from running the DAC at less than > max, but that's traded-off against any SNR losses in the pre-amp that > you're now not using. > > (*) Slimserver adjusts volume control (in the SB3 at least) so that > -30db and above volume settings avoid rounding or truncation of the > 24-bit data. -- cbemoore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cbemoore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=163 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28133 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
