Originally Posted by eyeteeth
"If the volume control is enabled in the SqueezeBox then the digital information provided by slimserver is manipulated by the firmware and output through the digital output. This manipulation may cause some loss of information. If the digital volume control is switched off then the SqueezeBox simply plays what it receives and your DAC does the job it did before when it was directly connected to a CD transport."
I just bought a Sqeezebox today . . . I can't believe I've been messing around with and Airport Express when this existed all along. It's really wonderful.
My question is, is the above quote the definitive word on the bitperfect/digital volume control issue? I.e., is 100% volume not bitperfect when the volume control is enabled? If not, then obviously anything even slightly less than 100% isn't bitperfect. But if this is wrong, i.e., if 100% volume with the control enabled is indeed bitperfect despite this report to the contrary, to what level below 100% does the stream remain bitperfect? Where can we find a definitive answer, if the quote above isn't it?
Thanks!
Simon
I just found
this post at HA. It is possible to losslessly lower the volume digitally to a certain point -- the question is, does the SB3 allow this?