Pre-Amp Volume adjust

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The standard setup gives me way too much volume when the volume knob is on 9 o Clock.
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Just turn it down!,

most of my listening is done between 7 and 8 on the volume dial and thats plenty loud enough for me.

Regards


NB

Same here. 9o'clock is about as far as I will go... Have pushed it to 10 o'clock, but had complaints from people 2 floors down...
between 7 and 8 for me too...
I have a 102, 180 and a CDI... running Naim speaker cable, into Castle Howard S3's...

The instructions for remote volume control suggest the following
Quick short pushes of the vol. up button will edge the volume up a small amount.
Holding the button for longer will cause the volume to turn faster.
That may help.

I also am in "LOUD" territory whe I get up to 9.00 oclock witha CDX2 & 250 mkii.

GEOFF

My 112 plays at a decent volume when it's at 12 o clock, and gives me a chance to adjust with some more granularity...
I thought that's what they describe in the manual (hold Prog until lights flash, adjust volume (wheel will not turn), press prog again - ready).

Any other advice on this ?

The 112 and the Nait 5 have a 'resistor-ladder' volume control which allows for input sensitivities to be adjusted and matched.

All the other pre-amps (and the new Nait 5i) have analogue volume controls which do not have the benefit of this feature, but are used because they sound better.

Thus; no adjustment of input sensitivity is possible.

In simple terms - you can't adjust it.

Hi James

My understanding is that the 'resistor-ladder' is part of a silicon chip - i.e. the volume is controlled digitally in 'steps'.

Again I believe that this circuitry 'sleeps' until a change is commanded - but still analogue pots sound better.

I would not expect the run-in/warm-up time to vary with the different types of pot?

Any tech heads out there to comment on this?