The advice given is good. If your inputs are limited to one and that is the digital input with variable output, you have nothing to lose by using it instead of a preamp, unless the digital volume control were noisy for some reason.
I have one preamp, original cost $5000 (which would be around $10K today) sitting in a third system, just because it has a very good dual volume control with discrete high quality resistors and a switch. The fancy dual phono stages etc. remain unused.
Wonder if someone has done an A/B between something like that and a CD player digital volume control.......
I have one preamp, original cost $5000 (which would be around $10K today) sitting in a third system, just because it has a very good dual volume control with discrete high quality resistors and a switch. The fancy dual phono stages etc. remain unused.
Wonder if someone has done an A/B between something like that and a CD player digital volume control.......