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That's what I don't understand, does it mean the phone buttons, or the laptop slider? If so, I have no control on what the DAC does, it is just a static amplifier, or is it linear - the higher I set the volume in my phone, the more the amplifier will boost (Making it almost increasing by factor of 2 for each level I increase the sound)
Well the DAC doesn't "boost" anything, it takes a digital 1's and 0s and creates an analog signal from that.
I'm not an expert on the finer points of USB audio, but presumably when you twiddle the volume knob on your phone or laptop, it writes to a volume register in the DAC chip, which sets the amplitude of the output accordingly.
So I need a DAC and an Amplifier? Is there dongle with both?