Phono Attenuators

[theadmans]

When using my Cambridge Dacmagic with my Little Dot II headphone amp and Sennheiser HD650s I find that I rarely get the volume nob beyond the quarter to the hour position. In fact a lot of the time volume is more likely to be 20 minutes to the hour.

I guess the output level of the Dacmagic is quite high. I was wondering if anybody had ever tried volume attenuators like these:

www.hificables.co.uk/ProductDetails/mcs/productID/10787/

If the attenuators allow me to use a greater range of the volume control is this likely to bring sound quality benefits? I am not suffering from any channel imbalance but am curious as to whether these things would improve my setup.

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theadmans
These would probably achieve the results you are after, but 20GBP each for an adaptor which most likely has 2 metal film resistors in it, seems a bit rich.
SandyK

[leo]

sandyk said:

theadmans
These would probably achieve the results you are after, but 20GBP each for an adaptor which most likely has 2 metal film resistors in it, seems a bit rich.
SandyK

Thats exact what they are too!

[leo]

All you need is a couple of small resistors which you can implement inside the phono plugs of an interconnect , I found this spreadsheet for working out the attenuation
www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/diyattenuation.xls