The gain and volume controls have to cope with the fact that there are likely to be a variety of input levels. If you allow enough leeway to play a quiet input at reasonable volume, then you allow the amplifiers to be overdriven from a high input level. I don't think there's any way around it.
The multiplicity of gain and volume controls in that particular system, meanwhile, comes from the fact that the signal's running (for convenience) through more components than it strictly needs to. There's no reason (in principle) why the line out from the computer couldn't go straight to a power amp, apart from that you'd do a lot of plugging and unplugging to use another source. That would cut the number to three.
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Date: 2003-05-23 04:14 am (UTC)The multiplicity of gain and volume controls in that particular system, meanwhile, comes from the fact that the signal's running (for convenience) through more components than it strictly needs to. There's no reason (in principle) why the line out from the computer couldn't go straight to a power amp, apart from that you'd do a lot of plugging and unplugging to use another source. That would cut the number to three.