Recent content by rwortman

The goal is to maximize signal to noise ratio. You are only going to listen as loud as you are going to listen. You can achieve that same loudness with the amp gains turned all the way up and your pre-pro volume at a low level or with the amp gains reduced and your pre-pro at a much higher...

Windows media player likely has a digital volume control. On my PC which I use for DAW mixing I have the system volume control at maximum and use the volume knob on my USB interface for adjusting sound to my monitor speakers or headphones. The above advice is for when you are using a volume...

I often see articles in professional sound magazines that are flat wrong about gain structure, using input gains to the board to set maximum desired SPL in the room. Convenience instead of sense, I suppose. We are supposed to set everything for maximum S/N up to the power amp and then use the...