yardcat
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I am trying to avoid any clipping inside my DAC chip. I run USB to Topping E50 DAC. Members are saying its best to attenuate the (digital) signal before it arrives at the DAC by -3.0 db to avoid internal clipping. May seem like a dumb question. Am I correct in assuming that the DAC display (orange numbers on E50) are showing the db levels after the DAC processing? So this DAC display is really only a 'volume' meter for the DACs preamp analogue and therefor cannot be relied upon to avoid internal clipping?
Unfortunately, With this assumption I need to constantly check that my PCs software (Pulseaudio) digital signal is attenuated by at least -3.0db. I often change software players (spotify, firefox, prime video) and all is run thru Linux Pulseaudio, which works, but I need to constantly fiddle with attenuating these software digital outputs to get that -3.0db 'volume' reduction.
I just wanted to make sure that that I cannot really rely on the DAC db display per se to avoid this DAC internal clipping issue. Thanks in advance and for this incredible forum!
Unfortunately, With this assumption I need to constantly check that my PCs software (Pulseaudio) digital signal is attenuated by at least -3.0db. I often change software players (spotify, firefox, prime video) and all is run thru Linux Pulseaudio, which works, but I need to constantly fiddle with attenuating these software digital outputs to get that -3.0db 'volume' reduction.
I just wanted to make sure that that I cannot really rely on the DAC db display per se to avoid this DAC internal clipping issue. Thanks in advance and for this incredible forum!