Originally Posted by
dumdum
Amp gains should be as low as can be to attain the volume you require with no clipping in the signal chain
if you are listening at 25% of radio volume then your gain structure is very wrong, ideally you want the radio to be as ‘turned up’ as possible while still keeping a clean signal and not clipping the dsp input
it makes my brain hurt when people use 4v preout hu and only use the first half of the volume steps, that completely defeats the point of 4v preouts, the hu will only make 4v when the volume is almost maxed out in a lot of cases, and below 3/4 volume you won’t get above 1v most likely out of a 4v headunit just because the volume is logarithmic as that’s how we hear and need power/voltage delivered