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What happens at maximum attenuation (50,000 ohms)? Isn't that where the maximum power has to be dissipated? Will the potentiometer then have to dissipate more than the listed 1/4 watt?

Aren't you talking about line-level here, before the amplifier? I don't think the amount of energy dissipated is a factor in this case. You're thinking of back in the days when you put those special speaker attenuator pots on the actual speaker wires.
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Tony Fabris