Spin wrote: 
> If I remember rightly I believe that the DAC uses a digital volume
> control that works by throwing bits away and the extra 4 bits of
> resolution allows you to apply quite a lot of attenuation before audio
> quality is affected.

That makes sense for internal processing (and many DACs actually use 32
bits or more for that), but not for the actual ladder output.



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