There are several ways to adjust your playback system to make the DAC-11 NOT to operate at the non-linear gain section, then the left and right channel will be balanced properly at your listening level.Ī) When using low impedance headphones and if you find the imbalance bothers you at low volume, you can consider to use an impedance adapter.ī)when using computer as digital source, you can adjust your computer volume to less than full, then turn the DAC-11 volume up to skip the non-linear gain section.Ĭ) when using DAC-11 with an amplifer with its own volume control, you can turn up the volume of DAC-11 and turn down the amplifier volume to get to your preferred listening volume. I bought a used PIMETA and it sounds much, much better than the Klipsch outs. It may indeed be better than your sound card-many sound cards have horrible headphone outs-but its still not decent. Digital volume control will be 100% linear all the way but the sound quality is no where near the high end mechnical one. I have the Promedia 2.1s at work, and I have to say, Im not at all impressed with the headphone out on it, not impressed at all.
This is normal and it's not a defect of the volume control. However, mechnical potentiometer volume adjustment is not linear at very low and very high level. Why my DAC-11 doesn't appear to sound balanced with left and right channel when I turn the volume to very low?Ī: The DAC-11 uses a high end mechnical potentiometer volume control to give you the best sound quality at normal listening level (left and right level volume difference no more than 0.5dB). For example, checkout this FAQ question from Grant Fidelity's website regarding their TubeDAC-11:ģ. As long as you turn it up a little bit they even out. Others can probably give you more specific info on this but from what I've read its quite common for audio equipment to have volume knobs that, at the very lowest levels, kick in the right channel before the left.
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