The nice thing about having volume control in both pre and dac is that it allows you to find out for yourself. When I did that I found that the pre-amp improved system performance in every way. Bascom King and many others have found the same. Some others like you have not. As always, you have to try it in your system to know which will hold for you.
Control volume with DAC or Preamp?
My DAC (PS Audio Directstream) has a volume control and so does my preamp(Benchmark), of course. What’s the best way to control the volume of my system to get optimum sound...turn the dac to maximum volume and use the preamp to make adjustments , turn the preamp to maximum and use the DAC for adjustments, turn each of them up part way? Or does it not make a difference?
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