Digital gain vs analog gain


Is there a rule of thumb that guides the balance between digital input level, analog pre-amp input level and analog amp attenuation for reach your desired listening volume? 

retrocrownfan

Showing 1 response by erik_squires

Depends on the source. Being old school, I run the DAC at 100% up to my integrated amp, even though it has an analog volume control I could use.

I also use Roon for DSP correction though, and it does all the math at 32 bit precision so I could probably use it as a volume control as well without being able to tell any degradation in sound.