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Does DragonFly have the first digital - analog volume control?

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Posted on June 23, 2012 at 02:13:36
Sumflow
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Even when the digital iTunes volume slider is used, DragonFly’s volume control carries out the instructions in the analog domain for the best sound.
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Wavelength Proton (nt), posted on June 23, 2012 at 04:01:24
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RE: Wavelength Proton (nt), posted on June 23, 2012 at 04:12:05
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 Another of Gordon Rankin's designs, I should have looked. Was he the first to find this workaround for digital volume controls?
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RE: Does DragonFly have the first digital - analog volume control?, posted on June 23, 2012 at 06:23:12
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 The 'Dragonfly' implementation intrigues me. In that tiny flash-drive form-factor AQ has apparently incorporated an aynchronous USB contoller, two clock generators, an DAC, an anlog volume control, and an headphone amp. Almost doesn't seem possible. I would love to know what chips, aside from the specified ESS Sabre DAC, are utilized.
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juli@ analog outputs nt, posted on June 23, 2012 at 07:21:44
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RE: Does DragonFly have the first digital - analog volume control?, posted on June 27, 2012 at 07:32:04
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 Sum,

First the DragonFly analog volume control is tied to the system wide volume control... NOT the volume control in iTunes or any application other than a few that allow you to link the system volume to the application volume (like Decibel).

I have designed a number of other dacs that do the same thing including my Proton.

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DragonFly analog bypass, posted on August 18, 2012 at 02:00:11
Sumflow
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Why does AudioQuest tell owners to bypass the Dragonfly analog volume controls?
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