Hi there,

My question is mainly out of curiosity as I’m not going to upgrade my system now.

I’ve been thinking about volume control in the digital and analog part of the audio flow.

In order to prevent quantization errors it seems theoretically optimal to leave the digital volume at 100% and use an analog amp volume control.

I suspect that most usb soundcards (mine is the Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd Gen) apply a digital attenuation, is that the case?

Or do we get analog volume control on higher end cards?

The quantization can theoretically be arbitrarily high as the digital volume lowers, why don’t I hear strong bit-noise when testing it? Does the card do some clever processing?

Thanks a lot in advance