Reduce Gain DAC?

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Hi Everyone,

I’m using actually Volumio since a while with Nanosound DAC (1st generation) with volume disabled connected to a Sansui AU-717 amp, I’m pretty happy with the results, the thing is when I play music, the DAC outputs quite high volume/gain so I have to set the Sansui’s volume very low, almost 1-2 steps from the minimum, so I would like to ask you whether there’s a way to reduce the gain of the DAC to something like 50% keeping the volume mixer disabled, I’m aware that volume itself tunes the gain but if I activate software volume it will reduce sound quality and hardware mixer makes nothing to the volume, just doesn’t react.

Any hint will be appreciated!

Cheers,
Bruno

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Hi Bruno,

The Nanosound DAC has built in hardware volume control. Why not simply using this ?

BR
Josef

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Hi Josef,
Thanks, I expected to used it but after a reply from Nanomesher forum I’ve realized that I misconfigured the volume options…
Just for the records, here’s the link where it shows how to it need to be properly done: https://nanomesher.com/support/nanosound-support/
Cheers,
Bruno.