Dear Jeff,

Thank you very much for the link.
I'm sorry to bother you again, but I'm afraid I haven't understood all of it: While I find the statements on
analogous volume control comprehensible, I'm at a loss with the statement that the loss of bit resolution
is only theoretical. If you reduce the range of values by turning the volume down, there should be a loss
of information (in a digital part), shouldn't it? Or are there measures taken against that? I could imagine
that this should be possible (if somehow you manage to allow intermediary values after squeezing the data
into a smaller range of values)?

Cheers & best regards,
Klaus