If you have a stepped attenuator, you get better discrimination of levels if your "normal" listening level is around "noon", since each step is a smaller percentage of your volume than if the attenuator is just one or two notches up from its lowest setting. You also have a better signal to noise ratio. On the older Audio Research amps, which had level controls, ARC always recommended that you set the amp gain so that your pre-amp gain attenuator was somewhere around noon for normal listening levels (and that left you with a lot of range if you wanted to melt your speakers...)
If you play your music between 10 and 12 on the d
If you play your music between 10 and 12 on your volume dial, does it sound better,same, etc. depending on the wattage of the amp? Say a McIntosh rated at 250 wpc compared to a McIntosh rated at 75 or 100 wpc? Does the quality of sound go up with the wpc when you listen a lower levels? or does it stay the same?
Gary
Everything else in the system being equal Cdp, speakers,etc.
Gary
Everything else in the system being equal Cdp, speakers,etc.
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