digital volume control

For anyone that read the 4th Gen 2i2 Review and is curious about how the upper-end of this generation fares, especially when it comes to output volume peculiarities, given 16i16 and up all use a digital volume control instead of analog: Here are my own 16i16 measurements. I simply downloaded and...

Hello everyone, I have been wondering about something for a while regarding the volume control done by windows vs the volume control done by most DACs. To preface this, I'm not looking for a theoretically perfect maximum bit depth, I'm only concerned about what can and cannot be heard by human...

I have a system that has four volume controls in the signal chain and I'm wondering how to set them. My system: Win 11 PC -> Foobar2000 (music file player) -> Dirac Live on PC -> DAC -> analog preamp -> power amp -> speakers The four volume controls are: 1 - Windows OS volume control 2 -...

My streaming rig comprises Roon into a Chord Qutest, then straight to my power amp. I’m able to apply digital volume control within Roon, but I’ve noticed when playing back DSD Roon will convert to apply the volume change , thus pure DSD is not sent to the DAC. The output of the DAC, even after...