just underlining what has already been said: its normal. The phono stage has to guess as to the cartridge’s output level. hey will pretty much NEVER match. But why do you really care? turn up (and down) the volume - unless it is so dramatic as to be dangerous to your ears or speakers or ????
There might be a gain adjustment for your phono stage. Mine all did (although it required unplugging the module and sending it back -- or having a good tech change 4 resistors).
Finally you could likely have a voltage divider placed on the DAC/line level signal to bring it down to the phono level.
Seems much ado about nothing. All the other options (adding components) have real, measurable, audible, costs / distortions asociated. A level off my 6 dB has essentially none.
G
There might be a gain adjustment for your phono stage. Mine all did (although it required unplugging the module and sending it back -- or having a good tech change 4 resistors).
Finally you could likely have a voltage divider placed on the DAC/line level signal to bring it down to the phono level.
Seems much ado about nothing. All the other options (adding components) have real, measurable, audible, costs / distortions asociated. A level off my 6 dB has essentially none.
G