Audio Mirror Tubadour V Tube rolling

Hmm...didnt realize the VI added any amplification.

@baylinor I'm interested in this DAC.  Can you elaborate on what you mean about the amplification you speak of?  I've never heard of this from a DAC.

The Tubadour V has no volume control, the VI does. Many dacs have volume control. The ones that do usually state that if you set the dac volume to max, it will bypass it. Doing so with my preamp/amp combo, it ends up being too much volume. Meaning I have to set my preamp volume well below 9 o'clock to get the volume I like, and it is not desirable as preamps perform best between noon and 3 o'clock. It's all system dependent. 

This is based on the belief that sources, streamer and dac, always sound best if set at max volume.

Are you sure?  Reading up on the Tubadour line the left knob is for on/off and right is input selection.  Was this confirmed with Vlad?