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Is there any way to reduce the sensitivity of the AES/EBU XLR of the digital input on the 220Pro?

My setup is is Vortexbox running LMS > Logitech transporter > Balanced XLR to Devialet 220 Pro.

I'm finding that the levels of some recordings are quite high, and If I look at the input level on the Devialet the level bars are nudging into the red nearing 0dB. There is no noticable clipping of the signal, but I'm wondering if there is a way to reduce the input level sensitivity.
I do not think there is a way to do this unless you use the digital volume control in your Transporter. You can not use attenuators on the signal as one does on analog.
(07-Jul-2017, 19:53)ogs Wrote: [ -> ]I do not think there is a way to do this unless you use the digital volume control in your Transporter. You can not use attenuators on the signal as one does on analog.

Thanks - Much as I thought. The digital volume control in Transporter has no affect on the digital output though.
Even if you enable the setting for volume adjustment under Settings=>Player in LMS? I am not familiar with the Transporter. Have used a Touch and lately squeezelite. Volume works there.
(08-Jul-2017, 19:09)ogs Wrote: [ -> ]Even if you enable the setting for volume adjustment under Settings=>Player in LMS? I am not familiar with the Transporter. Have used a Touch and lately squeezelite. Volume works there.

Yes - You are correct! I checked in my settings for the Transporter and I have have my volume set for 100%, no adjustment. I'd forgotten that I'd done that as I was using an external DAC before I had the Devialet.

However I'm minded to leave it like that as I don't want to attenuate by reducing the bit level. Although the Devialet is showing peaks into the red on the input level meter there is no evidence of any clipping whatsoever.
(07-Jul-2017, 11:34)disarmamant Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any way to reduce the sensitivity of the AES/EBU XLR of the digital input on the 220Pro?

My setup is is Vortexbox running LMS > Logitech transporter > Balanced XLR to Devialet 220 Pro.

I'm finding that the levels of some recordings are quite high, and If I look at the input level on the Devialet the level bars are nudging into the red nearing 0dB. There is no noticable clipping of the signal, but I'm wondering if there is a way to reduce the input level sensitivity.

The problem is not in the hardware but in the recordings. A considerable number of recordings, most pop music ones it seems, are compressed right up to limiters set near 0dB. They have almost no dynamic range and are mixed for earphones and cars not domestic quality hifi.
They won't be any audible clipping, just very little dynamic range - it is the way it is mixed and released and nothing can be done about it. There have been a lot of very poor quality recordings released over the last 10 to 15 years unfortunately.
Correct. In general you will not have digital clipping. Some rare cases will produce the odd inter-sample clipping though, but you may not even notice this. If you start using up sampling or other DSP (as in Roon for example) this can happen more often. Then you'd need to attenuate a little.
(08-Jul-2017, 22:13)f1eng Wrote: [ -> ]The problem is not in the hardware but in the recordings. A considerable number of recordings, most pop music ones it seems, are compressed right up to limiters set near 0dB. They have almost no dynamic range and are mixed for earphones and cars not domestic quality hifi.
They won't be any audible clipping, just very little dynamic range - it is the way it is mixed and released and nothing can be done about it. There have been a lot of very poor quality recordings released over the last 10 to 15 years unfortunately.

Absolutely. His a bit rare to find very good recordings. A lot of time and money spent on the overall production, but not  the recording sessions and masterings.
(08-Jul-2017, 22:53)ogs Wrote: [ -> ]Correct. In general you will not have digital clipping. Some rare cases will produce the odd inter-sample clipping though, but you may not even notice this. If you start using up sampling or other DSP (as in Roon for example) this can happen more often. Then you'd need to attenuate a little.

And Clipping with the Devialet is not a problem before it is using elliptic compression to avoid clipping that is damageable to the speakers.
Never knew that. Are there any links to 'official' Devialet blurb about it?
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