evraamsdonk
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Hi everyone,
I just received my Zero dac/amp and I found it to be very loud.
With my 250 ohm Beyedynamic DT880 I can't turn the volume up to 25%. If I want to use my Shure SRH840, 44 ohm, I have to lower the volume of my audio player application (foobar2000) to 15%. But I really want to have my volume in foobar2000 at 100% and only use the volume knob on the Zero. (setting the volume in foobar2000 lower changes the data that goes over USB, which would decrease the quality of the audio)
So my question is: can I add two resistors just before the pot to lower the overal volume?
The pot is a linear 100K one (B100K). The useful range for me is currently from 0 to 25% rotation, so if I understand correctly that would be the range of 75 to 100KiloOhm. If I were to add two 50KiloOhm resistors then my range would effectively become 50 to 150KiloOhm instead of the current 0 to 100.
My knowledge of electronics is very limited. Could anyone tell me if this makes any sense? Or maybe there is a completely different solution?
Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks,
Ewoud
I just received my Zero dac/amp and I found it to be very loud.
With my 250 ohm Beyedynamic DT880 I can't turn the volume up to 25%. If I want to use my Shure SRH840, 44 ohm, I have to lower the volume of my audio player application (foobar2000) to 15%. But I really want to have my volume in foobar2000 at 100% and only use the volume knob on the Zero. (setting the volume in foobar2000 lower changes the data that goes over USB, which would decrease the quality of the audio)
So my question is: can I add two resistors just before the pot to lower the overal volume?
The pot is a linear 100K one (B100K). The useful range for me is currently from 0 to 25% rotation, so if I understand correctly that would be the range of 75 to 100KiloOhm. If I were to add two 50KiloOhm resistors then my range would effectively become 50 to 150KiloOhm instead of the current 0 to 100.
My knowledge of electronics is very limited. Could anyone tell me if this makes any sense? Or maybe there is a completely different solution?
Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks,
Ewoud