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Agreed 100%...

Posted by PAR on April 12, 2014 at 07:01:18

In Reply to: OK, but attenuation kills the music in my experience posted by Frihed89 on April 11, 2014 at 13:05:15:

I too have a need for either lower gain at the power amp or lower output at the preamp. Both pre and power come from the same mfg BTW.

I have tried 10dB in line attenuators from a couple of manufacturers and both throttle small dynamic shifts making the emotional aspect of the music less. You can even hear it with speech (us Brits tend to speak using quite a lot of soft/loud contrasts).

Much better just to use the volume control at a low setting even though that is not wholly convenient and that the pot does not match the two channels ideally at this setting.

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