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BaxieBull

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  1. As per my experience there are a lot of things in audio that don't make sense. It got away from the complexity of separates with a tuner, preamp and amp all in one box. Receivers became too big as they went from 30W to 80W to 100W etc. Integrated units are the same. As power supplies increase in size, the integrated unit is no longer feasible. Separates help to keep things reasonably contained.
  2. As per my experience Transformer based (analog) is the best method of attenuation. That's the way everyone would do it but cost and practicality make it much harder to implement than resistor (analog) or digital based methods. Digital attenuation will become better and the best implementations are already very good, but they attenuate earlier in the signal path so they don't attenuate all of the circuit noise and there is also often'bit crushing' at lower volume levels that usually results in soundstage collapse and lifeless sound.
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