JTC
PFM Villager...
I really like my amp and speakers, but when I want super-quiet background music*, I find that when I turn the volume pot below a certain level my Luxman integrated cuts off rather than having a smooth fade to inaudibility like some other amps I've owned. I am guessing it must be using a fancy resistor ladder type volume pot - is this the LECUA they bang on about? - and, with 93dB/8ohm speakers that seem to sip parsimoniously at the electrons, means I'm getting too much speaker output and am not able to control the volume much down in the sissy-boy end of the pot.
My Mytek DAC outputs XLR balanced into the Luxman, and said DAC already has the attenuation jumpers set internally (though its own internal volume is bypassed). Would switching to RCA Phono as an i/c reduce the output gain and give me more range? I don't have a long enough pair of RCA cables to experiment with, and perhaps that might also degrade the sound? Or should I put up with the possible degradation that might occur if I re-activated the DAC's volume pot?
I'm guessing I can't be the only one to have experienced this with their fancy pants systems? So what did you smarter folks do?
* I know, get a radio or use a phone or something. But, hey, my system still sounds superb at really low levels and I wouldn't really want to compromise that.
My Mytek DAC outputs XLR balanced into the Luxman, and said DAC already has the attenuation jumpers set internally (though its own internal volume is bypassed). Would switching to RCA Phono as an i/c reduce the output gain and give me more range? I don't have a long enough pair of RCA cables to experiment with, and perhaps that might also degrade the sound? Or should I put up with the possible degradation that might occur if I re-activated the DAC's volume pot?
I'm guessing I can't be the only one to have experienced this with their fancy pants systems? So what did you smarter folks do?
* I know, get a radio or use a phone or something. But, hey, my system still sounds superb at really low levels and I wouldn't really want to compromise that.