If you are using the RCA output on your TP you have built in analog attenuation in -10-20-30 dB choices for each channel (page 24 in manual ).
For the balanced you can use external passive attenuators to get a better gain match. It is a good idea anyway (most amps have to much gain, have you ever used more than half the volume knob ? ). But besides all SB products share basically the same well implemented 24bit digital volume control, it is really good . One could argue that a digital volume is actually better than an analog one ( i think so, my own preamp uses one ) you get for example perfect tracking between channels something a potentiometer never achieves. on 16 bit material you would not loose resolution at all only loose some tiny amount of SN ratio (in the -10dB example you provided ), it is even questionable if one looses much on 24 bit sources? 24 bit is 144dB SN ratio, no practical product achieves this in the analog domain anyway. And it is a bit of red herring anyway, when you lowered the volume enough to loose resolution it is to low for you to hear that. possible exceptions for systems with enormous amounts of gain (they will have other problems thats swamps this one ) I don't have a TP but according to it's spec it has very low noise Signal-to-noise, Dynamic Range: 120dB THD+Noise: -106dB (0.00005%) Your Cary pre has Noise and Hum: -90 dB below full output So the practical limit of the digital volume in TP, I don't think it is a problem at all. If you ask around here there are user who have skipped the preamp completely and have connected the Transporter or other SB player directly to the power amp, possible with the aid of some passive attenuators (recommended practice ) to get a good match to start with. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58679
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