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[Henry_Svendblad]

Thanks for sharing that @DrCWO – It makes me feel much better about using DSP volume in Roon. I had no idea it was that good. So I assume for your setup you use your RME DAC with roon DSP attenuating the volume? I’ve just always heard DSP volume < Device volume. This gives us options…

EDIT: So what I get from reading your whitepaper and all of the posts related to this is that if you’re gonna use Digital Volume (device or roon DSP) use Roon DSP as it is as good as it can get. However, using analog attenuation is still “better” than digital attenuation. I was thrown off by the roon signal path icons…

Per Danny at Roon:

@danny

Tuckers: “The best path (IMHO) would not include analog attenuation”

I’m not sure why you say that, but that is EXACTLY where you want the attenuation. Everything else is an approximation of trying to do it in the analog stages… this is the place you get it with the best resolution (near infinite resolution!)

So: Analog volume > Roon DSP Volume > Digital Device Volume