Sure this is the sweet spot, but I find that some of today's digital gear puts out so many volts, that I end up with my analog preamp's volume at the low end of the scale.
I pretty much solved that problem by only playing LP's in my main system, but the new the new PS Audio DAC coming out in the next months claims to have a digital volume that does not degrade at any value above 50%. I am thinking this will be ideal to allow our analog volume to be optimized, and adjust the digital to get everything into it's sweet spot, for any given desired SPL from the speakers.
I pretty much solved that problem by only playing LP's in my main system, but the new the new PS Audio DAC coming out in the next months claims to have a digital volume that does not degrade at any value above 50%. I am thinking this will be ideal to allow our analog volume to be optimized, and adjust the digital to get everything into it's sweet spot, for any given desired SPL from the speakers.