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Post by widespreadpanic on Aug 22, 2019 17:48:39 GMT -5
I like to listen to music at high volume levels!!! Will the numbers of the volume indicator on my XSP-1 stop moving at some point? When I turn it on it is set to the default volume level of -90.0. As I turn the volume up the numbers on the display decrease...what is up with the “-“ in the readout for the volume indicator. When I was younger, it was “0 - 10”,and you tried to make it go to 11. I’ve gotten as high as 0.00 on the volume indicator. No hissing in between tracks at all! I love this system!
Can I keep turning up the volume and the amps will just keep pumping out all they can,and the volume indicator will keep going up, until they can’t produce anymore amps, watts or whatever.....or my speakers blow? Thank you for your consideration.
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Post by garbulky on Aug 22, 2019 18:36:07 GMT -5
I like to listen to music at high volume levels!!! Will the numbers of the volume indicator on my XSP-1 stop moving at some point? When I turn it on it is set to the default volume level of -90.0. As I turn the volume up the numbers on the display decrease...what is up with the “-“ in the readout for the volume indicator. When I was younger, it was “0 - 10”,and you tried to make it go to 11. I’ve gotten as high as 0.00 on the volume indicator. No hissing in between tracks at all! I love this system! Can I keep turning up the volume and the amps will just keep pumping out all they can,and the volume indicator will keep going up, until they can’t produce anymore amps, watts or whatever.....or my speakers blow? Thank you for your consideration. Yes. It goes past zero and will max out your amps. However it does have a maximum value. It's probably like +11 or something. 0 means that it's line level- it's not amplifying anything. The signal is at the same level as it received from the DAC. A negative value means that it is actually reducing the signal so that it's not too loud. When you go higher then you will indeed be (pre-)amplifying the signal. It would be more powerful than the signal it receives. As a preamplifier the XSP-1 is certainly designed to be able to do this. Some DACs that have volume controls and preamps inbuilt will also do this like the DC-1 however they aren't really made to be putting out very high output levels and so one may risk clipping the preamp stage of the DAC if it exceeds a certain voltage. This usually is higher (sometimes much higher) than 0 db to risk that. For DACs this 0db value tends to be about 2V or 1V for RCA and 4V for XLR. Some trivia, Benchmark dacs have ridiculous output voltage which are far greater supposedly for niche professional applications. However with a standalone preamp like the XSP-1 you won't worry about the dac clipping. Though it is possible that the XSP-1 may also have a limit to how much preamplification current it can provide before clipping. |
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Post by The Mad Norseman on Aug 22, 2019 21:15:03 GMT -5
I like to listen to music at high volume levels!!! Will the numbers of the volume indicator on my XSP-1 stop moving at some point? When I turn it on it is set to the default volume level of -90.0. As I turn the volume up the numbers on the display decrease...what is up with the “-“ in the readout for the volume indicator. When I was younger, it was “0 - 10”,and you tried to make it go to 11. I’ve gotten as high as 0.00 on the volume indicator. No hissing in between tracks at all! I love this system! Can I keep turning up the volume and the amps will just keep pumping out all they can,and the volume indicator will keep going up, until they can’t produce anymore amps, watts or whatever.....or my speakers blow? Thank you for your consideration. Yes. It goes past zero and will max out your amps. However it does have a maximum value. It's probably like +11 or something. 0 means that it's line level- it's not amplifying anything. The signal is at the same level as it received from the DAC. A negative value means that it is actually reducing the signal so that it's not too loud. When you go higher then you will indeed be (pre-)amplifying the signal. It would be more powerful than the signal it receives. As a preamplifier the XSP-1 is certainly designed to be able to do this. Some DACs that have volume controls and preamps inbuilt will also do this like the DC-1 however they aren't really made to be putting out very high output levels and so one may risk clipping the preamp stage of the DAC if it exceeds a certain voltage. However with a standalone preamp like the XSP-1 you won't worry about the dac clipping. Though it is possible that the XSP-1 may also have a limit to how much preamplification current it can provide before clipping. Another explanation of this I've heard is that "0" denotes "reference level" volume - in other words the volume the real thing would be at. So as you turn down the volume you're decreasing the sound from reference level, usually -0.5db at a time... A volume setting above "0" (getting into "+" territory on the readout) would then technically be louder than the real thing (reference level) would be in your room. I think that when running your room correction software during initial set up the system will determine what reference level is in your room based upon the sound feedback the software interprets. |
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Post by widespreadpanic on Aug 23, 2019 17:26:18 GMT -5
Thanks for your input.
Ok so is that why it seems the longer I listen to my system it seems I am able to turn the volume up and it seems nice and smooth, because it’s getting closer to its actual input level?
I mean I listen very intently for any hiss, pop and so on when I gingerly push the volume up.i will sit and listen to several songs at the next achieved volume level. It seems to smooth out, so I push the volume a few more times. Is that because it’s getting closer to the real input level?
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