Does the volume control effect sound quality?

Here is a good article for those who are interested to see how much their active preamp or passive volume control, is adding colourations/distortions to their sound.
It's called the "Ravel's Bolero Test" and you need a CD or LP of it or like it to conduct the test.
http://www.high-endaudio.com/RC-Linestages.html click on Bolero Test, scroll down to "CD Player?" if you have a cd player

It is basically doing what I suggest you do 2 posts back

Cheers George

That website is terrible!

Are you saying Arthur's opinions are terrible or his website is not user friendly?

Atmasphere, I was trying to understand your post and if I read you correctly, are you saying that the circuit has to be engineered to accept and maximize sound quality for any particular type of volume pot?

There are some audio engineers that think a good standard volume pot will outperform many of the other more expensive designs. Croft is one of them.

Phd, you are correct. Start with the right value. Only then do you switch things up, if you will pardon the expression :), with better quality.

Dracule1, both. First, the site commits a web 1.0 error, that of endless rant/scrolling. Second, many of the conclusions don't seem to arise in a scientific manner, instead are based on deductions without understanding of the math behind them that is at play in each instance.