New DAC! Meitner MA3, Denafrips Terminator Plus, Holo May KTE, Mola Mola Tambaqui

Hello @phishhhhh4 ,  Good info but confusing me a bit.  You (Mola Mola) are saying there is no difference as long as you turn the volume down using 6v or up using 2v?  This is not what I found to be true.  At the 6v output, on some recordings, there is distortion.  I will call it this as opposed to clipping as I might be technically wrong.  This distortion always starts at the bottom of any eight step cycle on my Audionet Preamp ( Pre G2) and probably my Stern.  As you turn the volume up, the distortion increases  along any 8 step portion of the volume.  As you increase volume, the distortion increases along that given 8 step increase. At the ninth step, the distortion lowers and then climbs again (louder as the volume is louder) during  that 8 step ladder.  So just turning the volume down to match 2v output volume does not eliminate the distortion.

Using Volume Offset does.  I do not know if this effectively turns the output down to 5v or 4v or not, but it sounds better than just using 2v and turning it up

I was hoping you could explain response from Mola Mola as it's over my head. I do, take from it, that changing Volume offset does lower the output voltage

Ive experienced the distortion you refer to on 2 tracks @ 6V. When I change to 2V there is no longer distortion where there was.

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I do not doubt that that the distortion goes away at the 2v output; same here.

What I am saying is that we do not have to turn it all the way down to 2v.  Use the Volume Offset instead.

I looked again at Volume Offset in the MM app.

I noticed by selecting -2 its value is -2dB (as opposed to -2v). 

Somehow this is different than decreasing volume, which in their digital domain causes a resolution loss.  I do not think you loose any resolution at 6v with -2 in the volume offset tab.