Which CONTROL PREAMPLIFIER control the VOLUME?


Say, one has a regular preamplifier with a volume control knob, and then one adds a DAC to the stereo system, which has its own volume control knob.
 WHICH VOLUME CONTROL KNOB actually DETERMINES the VOLUME LEVEL- the one on the preamplifier or the one on the DAC?! Or do they just battle it out between themselves,eh?!
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Showing 1 response by freediver

To expand on jon2020’s reply,most stand alone  PA/DACs today have both Fixed & Variable analogue outputs or software based volume control.In a preamp with built in DAC the output from DAC to amp would have to feed through the preamps volume control & the DAC would have no variable output.