that looks nice! i just finished mine too: http://albums.phanfare.com/isolated/1xGL8309/1/7200082
so far it is very detailed and balanced. i have to do a shoot-out with the LDR, but i think the TVC has an edge re detail. i did find that it was not able to fully attenuate one of my sources, a tuner. luckily the tuner has output pots so i can reduce its output. however, i'd rather take those pots out of the equation, so the lack of full attenuation is a downside of the TVC.
is there any burn-in period with the TVC?
Was looking for something a bit different is all.
i switched amps. took out the tpa 3116, which is about 20wpc. put in darling clementine flea watt tube amp, which is 0.75 wpc. still more volume than i want. plus i put in 12 db harrison labs attenuators. this is with a tube tuner, not a digital source.
tuner has the most output, but needed the 12 db attenuators to tame the DAC
It seems like it is more than a DAC, i.e. a DAC plus a preamp. As I am sure you know, most DACs output around 2 to 4 volts. Where do you run the volume on the Emotiva?
As usual SET12, you beat me on a reply. I had found the following advice from you in post #13 in the other thread (Klipsch R28F):
So addressing some of your concerns. I think you were concern about having 3 inputs and whether it was OK to put a TVC after your line stage.
Putting a TVC after a line stage is not really a good idea as the gain would likely produce many volts across the TVC causing it to be saturated. One could turn down the volume of their preamp but that would defeat some of the benefits of the TVC like lack of compression. So really after a source is really the best bet.
Thanks Tillerman, In theory a digital volume control would be superior to a conventional control such as a pot and resistor ladder. But in practice there are many poorly implemented designs that truncate resolution say from 16 bit down to 12 bit. I have heard some pretty bad controls myself. But it is likely with a digital volume control not to experience compression the worry for me is the truncated information which BTW as I recall on the worst digital volume control that I recall it sounded pretty dark. So some are quite good and some not so good.
SET12 - Since you mentioned digital volume controls, one of my preamps (Audio Alchemy DLC) uses a Cirrus CS3310 for digital attenuation. It is my only preamp with remote functionality.
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