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In the Thread: Crossover Design
Post Subject: DSP volume controls only for toy equipment.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/5/2012
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All digital domain volume controls (or crossovers, which is the same) by definition reduce amount of bits. Some “creative” companies fight within by introducing the additional processing after the bits were lost in order to hide the fact that they operate at not full resolution. They inject dither and other crap – this is very bad thing for Sound and must not be use in serious equipment. For most of the “dead audiophiles” it works, here is where the “proliferation of digital volume controls” comes from. There are some (very few) companies that do resetting the whole D/A algorithm, use the new volume level as reference. This approach has other problem… why to go into this if analog attenuation works perfectly fine. The DSP volume controls (aka crossovers) only for toy equipment and for toy results…Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site