Originally Posted By: mrgeeze
Kind of weird not setting any volume levels.

I wondered how they were able to do that as the pre-amps themselves presumably are not floating point (that seems feasible but unlikely).

It has a pretty good noise floor and good dynamic range, which would cover most circumstances OK, but not all circumstances. Do they soft-switch a pad in the preamp? Then I saw the clue ... line input has an option of phantom power. OK, so it actually has a manually applied pad loosely disguised as line-input. Both inputs are described as having input impedance "3k or greater", which tends to support that ... line input is more conventionally 10k.

Neat thinking on their part. It isn't so long ago that 127dB was fairly exceptional. It's becoming common.

I wonder if it switches in that line-level pad for itself if it sees an overload.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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