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Pneumonic;363471 Wrote: > > The "noise" I am referring to is the unexpected and potentially > damaging noise that one might encounter if things malfunction when you > are running your TP direct into your power amp without any form of > external attenuation. And the "noise" Sean was referring to was the self generated noise of the DAC, E.g. the Wadia DAC. It maintains this level of self noise even when the signal is digitally attenuated, therefore there is the same amount of noise, and less signal, which equates to a lower SNR ratio. There is no way around it in digital attenuation, while analog attenuation OTOH attenuates the self generated noise of the device along with the signal. You shouldn't be setting the jumpers to avoid a "software glitch or human error", if you care about sound quality, you should be setting them to get the highest possible performance out of the DAC. The same goes for the Wadia. It would be better to use analog attenuation before the amp so that you can get the highest SNR out of the DAC you paid dearly for. edit: in theory that is... -- Skunk http://www.last.fm/user/TheSkunk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55246 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
