Being a heavy DSP user, I find that “bit perfectness” is overrated. But in any hobby, to each his beliefs
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I too am quite involved with DSP. You just can’t have too much DSP to play with. My vinyl doesn’t sound nearly as fun without routing it through DSP. Blasphemy to many, but they don’t have the same DSPs.
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For the time being I’m using a miniDSP SHD to fine tune the volume in my system that’s routed through a Schiit Lyr. In general I like the Schiit relay volume control, which I believe controls to 0.5 dB steps, but the resolution adjusting via remote seems to be more like 1.0 to 1.5 dB.
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Yeah ya got me - bit perfect until it gets to the DAC, but both DACs have DSP on board, used here to app;y a little “room and speaker correction”.
The RME can do volume as well, but not the Franken-DAC.
I really do like the feel of a proper motorised potentiometer though so…
I am going to experiment with “modular preamp” concept again and take the volume control out of the selector and buffer unit. This will allow me to put the volume in a separate box giving more more space to play with different methods 
I really should write it all up in a DIY thread, one day.
I know this site is not a hive of DIY activity (but shoutout to @rajugsw and others!), still I will get around to it one day
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Agreed. I run the balanced o/p from the Stellar Phono into my Tascam DA-3000. Then set it up for digital monitoring via 192/24 S/PDIF. That guzinto the MK1 DSSr. and voila’. DSD live playback of anything I put onto the LP12.
An expensive “DSP” solution but I find it’s a tad smoother than the raw output from the Stellar Phono (which is pretty damn good anyways).
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