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Anyone here using a Dragonfly DAC with a Squeezebox Touch?.......

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I thought I'd try a Dragonfly DAC to use for Travel with my Squeezebox Touch. I got it running OK, except for one thing. The volume output seems to be about 50% out of the DAC.

When I tried the Dragonfly on my PC you can adjust the volume with Windows Set-up, but I cannot with an SBT. I have the output volume of the SBT to 100%.

Anyone here know how to do this?

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RE: Anyone here using a Dragonfly DAC with a Squeezebox Touch?....... - cyclonic 15:14:13 08/12/14 (0)
EDO will not help. I use an old moving coil cartridge pre pre amp between the DF and my preamp. The device is nothing more that two Souter transformers. It works brilliantly! The gain is now the same as all my other devices. The chain is, SBT to a USB hub to which the DF is plugged then into my pre preamp and then into the Bryston pre. The SBT and the hub are battery powered and this helps a lot to clean up the sound. I use a 20000mah Anker. It has heaps of storage and charges quickly from its own supply NOT a slow usb power feed.

This seems like the only way to go with the SBT and the DF but the results are stunning.
RE: Anyone here using a Dragonfly DAC with a Squeezebox Touch?....... - soundchekk 07:51:12 08/12/14 (2)
You need the Alsa amixer or alsamixer binaries for the Touch architecture to be able to set the volume of the DF (or any other device with HW volume control).

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- RE: Anyone here using a Dragonfly DAC with a Squeezebox Touch?....... - Cut-Throat 09:52:41 08/12/14 (1)
  I am using a Pluggin called EDO (Enhanced Digital Output, Written by Triode). I would have thought, he would have allowed for this???
  
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  - RE: Anyone here using a Dragonfly DAC with a Squeezebox Touch?....... - soundchekk 23:46:04 08/12/14 (0)
    The LMS universe, that includes EDO, works with SW volume control.
    
    You need a HW volume control. That has nothing to do with EDO.
    EDO introduces a slightly tweaked setup that can allow or improve
    USB DAC playback. And that's about it. Improving means to get DACs
    going without XRUNS (crackles). Triode introduces quirks to
    the kernel and he also modifies the USB audio driver.
    
    The Touch USB port is all but appropriate for USB audio playback anyhow.
    IMO a waste of time. Even an RPI + squeezelite will probably do much better.
    
    Good luck.

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