FiiO E10K Owners

[Thony]

What number is your volume at ?

Mine is between 1-2, all windows 10 volume maxed out, same for browser. Anything higher and its so loud. I use DT990 Pro and Z97-A mobo.
 

[corbetto]

Mine is normally at 10 and windows is at 45. I am also using the DT 990 Pros.

[Thony]

1 minute ago, corbetto said:

Mine is normally at 10 and windows is at 45. I am also using the DT 990 Pros.

So u think its better to keep software volume low and amp volume high ?

[Guest]

@Majestic

 

6 minutes ago, Thony said:

So u think its better to keep software volume low and amp volume high ?

 

No. You should have the Windows volume at maximum. Turn down the gain on the Fiio if it isn't on low already.

[Thony]

4 minutes ago, SSL said:

@Majestic

 

 

No. You should have the Windows volume at maximum. Turn down the gain on the Fiio if it isn't on low already.

I watched Linus's review on this tech and he said Low gain is for low ohm headphones. Mine are 250ohms and capacity of the dac/amp is 300ohm according to Linus.

[Majestic]

3 minutes ago, SSL said:

@Majestic

Hey now, don't trigger me. I might report you to https://about.twitter.com/nl/safety/council

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, Thony said:

I watched Linus's review on this tech and he said Low gain is for low ohm headphones. Mine are 250ohms and capacity of the dac/amp is 300ohm according to Linus.

 

Linus is embarrassingly wrong.

[Pomfinator]

48 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

I don't use an E10K but I prefer to strike a balance with Windows volume higher most of the time.

If you amp an analog signal too much, could get distortions

On the other hand I leave room in Windows volume for those few tracks I don't find loud enough.

Prefer not to touch my dac/amp

I believe putting the source volume at anything less than 100% for distortion reasons is only for onboard, since you can't isolate a line-out from onboard.  When it comes to a unit with a DAC built in to it, distortion at 100% Windows volume is a non-issue.  Anything less than 100%, you're going to be cutting bit-depth.

[Pomfinator]

Just now, huilun02 said:

But doesn't windows upconvert to 32bit floating point before volume adjustments?

Lowering the volume of a digital signal is equivalent to cutting bit-depth.  Nothing to do with Windows resampler.

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

But doesn't windows upconvert to 32bit floating point before volume adjustments?

 

That doesn't actually increase the ENOB though. The best way is to do amplification and volume control in analog.