I am in the process of doing an in home demo of a Select II DAC with the Preamp module. The DAC is great and going amp direct is amazing compared to my current PS Audio DSD DAC and BHK Preamp. I'm very impressed with the MSB hardware.
One thing I found strange is what I believe is the gain on the Preamp. It seems like you really have to turn up the volume dial to get significant volume. For example I would say between 0 - 40 there is not much volume at all. I've been typically using the DAC between 70 - 80 on the volume dial. Is this done by design and are you other MSB owners typically using the volume dial in the 70+ range. I'm also not sure if this DAC has such low noise that I'm just able to turn it up to a louder level. The rest of my system are two BHK 300 mono blocks and Revel Ultima Salon II speakers.
Thanks.
One thing I found strange is what I believe is the gain on the Preamp. It seems like you really have to turn up the volume dial to get significant volume. For example I would say between 0 - 40 there is not much volume at all. I've been typically using the DAC between 70 - 80 on the volume dial. Is this done by design and are you other MSB owners typically using the volume dial in the 70+ range. I'm also not sure if this DAC has such low noise that I'm just able to turn it up to a louder level. The rest of my system are two BHK 300 mono blocks and Revel Ultima Salon II speakers.
Thanks.