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Where to reduce volume before amp?

post #1 of 5
4/23/11 at 2:17pm
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At the moment I've reduced the volume from my soundcard's settings, my media player's volume is at 100% all the time as I naturally use the amp volume knob for adjusting. Is this a good way to do this? I would love to keep everything maxed before the amp, but I really can't. Now the soundcard outputs 25% and my amp's volume isn't even at 8 o'clock. Any better ideas?

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post #2 of 5
4/23/11 at 5:12pm

Seems like your amp is pretty powerful?  Is there a gain switch on it?

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post #3 of 5
4/23/11 at 11:22pm
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Amp is on my sig, Musical Fidelity M1HPA, and phones are Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X. There is no gain switch... If there were I would use it. =D

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post #4 of 5
4/23/11 at 11:51pm

I've found that when I need to lower the volume on my system before my amp I get the best sound quality by maxing the volume on my media player and than lowering my system volume.

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post #5 of 5
4/24/11 at 5:26am
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That's what I'm doing at the moment too, I suppose I'll keep with that then.

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