Digital output attenuation volume

[dabassgoesboomboom]

Hi,

This thread I started is about auto volume levelling but I think the Guru’s (@brian) replies might help to answer your questions.

Roon's 64 bit floating point volume leveling

Hi @brian I’ve seen comments scattered around the forum discussing whether Roon’s 64 bit floating point volume leveling is lossless or not. I have volume leveling on Auto and the average volume leveling figure for my music library is around -12dB I have a basic understanding (which could easily be wrong so please correct me) that for every approx. -6db in volume leveling there is a 1 bit truncation (or loss?) in the output resolution. So every 6db drop in volume leveling in Roon, 1 bit of res…