Very interesting post OpenSky. With my Average Joe's understanding, AKM 4497 has 32 bits (max value is 4,294,967,296) so a cd-quality 16 bit signal (max is 65536) will start to be heavily degradated when attenuation is below 0.00152% of its 5V signal, and still it will be truncated when attenuation level sits not exactly in one of the 65536 integer multiples of 65536. So it seems we are pretty fine if AKM decided to use such multiples when implementing the volume steps. What makes subjectivist reviewers so fond of preamps is a mistery for me, maybe impedience plays a role?
Experts are welcome
Experts are welcome
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