xand
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The stepped attenuator is a custom make components, the setting of steps have to take care of both speaker and headphone applications, and this indeed is a compromise to certain extend. The 24 volume steps are generally adequate for different headphones we tired, but if you need to perform volume matching to, for example, within 1dB range, we need a lot more than 24 steps to do that correctly.
Oh, it would be really nice if the ha300 had more volume steps to accommodate more headphones, and a 4.4mm output.