You should be able to change D10s volume from the PC after installing Topping's drivers, have you tried that?
Otherwise you may have gone a bit too low-end with this model, and another DAC with a more easily accessible volume control would be preferred (either with a knob or at least on a remote). An E30 II (lite) would do.
Also, what is your playback chain on the computer? If you're playing loudness war era CDs with no Replaygain and no nothing I'm in no way surprised. I remember people cursing over 15 years ago due to having their integrated amp's volume knob stuck at a super low setting with poor channel balance all the time, and that was with traditional CD players.
Normally, i discard loudness CD, the worst îve heard was the Rolling stones live in bar in toronto, and all remaster are loudness of loudness (all that for micro earbud, there not good, they require loudness to work) but
Replay gain, please explain, i always discard it, since i listen mostly my cd ripping from my nas on my server
Also, i bypass windows volume and data goes direct to topping
I have same result with computer or transport!
Replay gain, did it help using it?
Topping driver are they asio?
I will resume building a mac server (mini) for music, since you have access midi setup!
Please no knob or no volume, that was my goal, but modern stuff with 4v out, is nonsence and i know micro V, involve precision and 4v is a way to discard and made it affordable/cheap (to minimal effort)!
Attenuator, seems to create bottle sound, some old amplifier have ceramic/aux entry so less V out is better, like the wiim
Thanks for helping!