I'm not quite sure who these "experts" are that you refer to, but I'd take more notice of the fact that some of the nicest setups in use on this forum are using a TP directly into active speakers such as ATC100's. These are very revealing setups. Clearly the "experts" are wrong (yet again) because these folks are using the digital volume control and seem quite happy.
Of course 16 bit uses all 16 bits all the time and 24 bit uses all 24. Digital level control at 16-bit is a crude device... however, the SB, TP and any decent digital gear will upgrade an incoming 16 bit signal to 24 bit before applying level adjustment. As the designer of the SB/TP - Sean - pointed out in an a recent post, the TP can resolve to 21 bits, beyond which is random noise. Applying digital level adjustment to a 24-bit signal (native or upgraded from 16-bit) is fine. It works. Try it and see. This is not about maths, it's about music. You really ought to take a trip to a studio sometime - it would be an eye-opener...all the levels are being manipulated digitally nowadays - and that's before you ever get to hear it. So that great sounding vocal or guitar or whatever will already have had its level adjusted in this manner. If it was really the musically destructive process that the experts claim, people woudn't use it ! If I had no pre-amp I'd be very happy to use attenuators to set the max level approximately and then use the digital level control to adjust to taste. Very Happy. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38233 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
