Hi Vaughan,
Did you use good quality attenuators, such as the Rothwell's?
Did you use them at the end of the interconnect cables (i.e., at input jacks and not at output jacks)? The Rothwell's are designed to be used in that manner, and even apart from their internal design I would expect that their sonic effects would be quite different depending on which end of the cable they are positioned at. If the attenuator is located at the beginning of the run, the cable parameters would interact with the output impedance of the attenuator, which is likely to be considerably higher than the output impedance of the component.
Also, did you try the attenuators between power amp and preamp, as well as between cdp and preamp?
Best regards,
-- Al
Did you use good quality attenuators, such as the Rothwell's?
Did you use them at the end of the interconnect cables (i.e., at input jacks and not at output jacks)? The Rothwell's are designed to be used in that manner, and even apart from their internal design I would expect that their sonic effects would be quite different depending on which end of the cable they are positioned at. If the attenuator is located at the beginning of the run, the cable parameters would interact with the output impedance of the attenuator, which is likely to be considerably higher than the output impedance of the component.
Also, did you try the attenuators between power amp and preamp, as well as between cdp and preamp?
Best regards,
-- Al