I do love my UQ2, but starting to get annoyed that I have to use the remote or the app to adjust the volume. The feel and ease of the volume dial on my 172 is such that I’m thinking about putting it in my office just so I can adjust it manually. Which means I have to bring the 155 with it.
Am I crazy or is this an actual thing? I know how much people have talked about the dial on the N50, so maybe there’s something to it??
It likely is a “thing”, to the point where I seem to recall a website popped up that rated hifi purely on the “knob feel” (cue the usual…).
Hello, the green logo can alter volume & mute , obviously not a dial but a physical control. Hope that helps you.
Quite right too. If you paid a pretty penny for your amp and the volume (ahem) dial felt like the volume control on a £10 1980s Walkman, you’d be disappointed.
A related issue is as rendered in the exchange from Jurassic Park:
“Are those things heavy?”
“Yes”
“Then they’re expensive. Put them down.”
Given the disappointment expressed about this year’s Bristol show, I bet you could spice it up a bit next year by having a blind test where people have to rank several bits of kit by price based purely on operating the volume dial.
[@Skeptikal: do feel free to reword that last phrase and then send yourself a Frankie]
You see what I did then. 
It was an open goal reply for him. 
It’s not just HiFi. Knobs and switches beat computer adjustments every time for me. My next door neighbour’s just bought a new Evoke, no manual adjustments he tells me. A button I press on our Mazda takes him through 3 or 4 screens in the Evoke. We’re currently battling with a new Tumble Dryer which requires a level of competence neither I or Mrs twofifty seem to have. Tactile rules imo.
Exactly, just touch the left of the logo for down or the right for up. It works very well.
I totally understand. My office has two systems. One a UQ2 as a desk system and another system in the open area of the room. On Fridays I use the latter exclusively as a sort of wind down tech detox because I have to interact with knobs and buttons. Not just relay controlled buttons but real ones that make clicks and thunks as you flip them.
As I get older I appreciate more that we’re basically just apes and we want to grab it things with our clumsy mits more than swipe at abstract concepts on a screen.
It does
Almost never
How you interact with your system is important and IMO can make or break the experience. I would never buy an amp that didn’t have remote volume control, however good it sounded. To me, having to get up and down just to fiddle with volume setting, especially since we use it for video sound too, would be a PITA. And I grew up in the era before remote controls!
My logo definitely does not change the volume - only mute.
I have touched it there many times, and no reaction.
@Skeptikal - over to you.
Mine sort of does though touching left and right doesn’t seem to work as well as swiping the logo up or down. Either way, it’s not very reliable. Hardly ever works. And certainly doesn’t let you control it with any precision.
My XS3 has a volume knob but I’ve not touched it since I’ve owned it as I only use the NARCOM 5 remote volume control
Me neither on my Supernait 3 I don’t like the idea of turning it against the motor and mechanism. 
Forgive me, I gave incorrect advice about touching left for down and right for up. First of all the logo mute needs to be switched on. Then you can increase volume by touching the logo continuously. The first touch increases it, the second touch decreases it. When I had a Qute 2 it worked fine.
Are you talking about your hifi or your partner? 
