boybees;148508 Wrote: > Thanks. I have two follow up questions: > > 1) In another thread, we've identified the regular volume settings of > 40-100 as the "safe zone", that is, the region where volume attenuation > results in loss of SNR, but no loss of information in the digital signal > itself. What is the analogous "safe zone" on the preamp volume control, > which has a total range of 0 to -63db? > > 2) What settings on preamp volume control will give identical > attenuation to the settings of 90, 80, and 70 on the regular volume > control?Having looked at the DAC data sheet:-
(1) Not specified. The data sheet simply says that is a digital attenuator function. (2) The SB 0-100 volume control corresponds to -0.5db per step. Therefore 90 = -5db, 80 = -10db and 70 = -15db. HTH -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28884 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
