Can a DAC do double duty?

Just received this response from Alvin:

Dear Brian

Nice to hear from you again!
It's been some time since we last spoke. How are you doing? I hope you are doing well.

Absolutely no problem to connect multiple sources to the DAC's inputs. 

However, there is no need to use RCA output to connect to the same Krell processor. Your existing XLR output will work just fine.

Hope this helps!

Thanks again and great call on the Pontus naming @soix 😂! Love it!

@martinl07d I am running the Elite PD-F17-old school baby👌🏻

@amtprod not sure if it’s A6 version? Got her off EBay a few years ago. In a previous life I had the PD-F908 and sold that one after my divorce. A few years ago when I got back into the game the first thing I looked for was a Pioneer carousel. Came across the Elite and pounced!

@asvjerry B. Joel Glass Houses is a true Time Machine for me. “Sleeping With the Television on” (does not get any better than the intro to that one😌 brings me right back to the old days when you’d fall asleep watching a movie and wake up to the snowy screen with that playing), and “ I Don’t Want To Be Alone Anymore”. IMHO those were BJ’s best and most underrated songs. Not sure why they never got the airtime…memory lane man, doesn’t get any better…

LOVE that the Elite player got some attention!😊

I did have to have the “arm” replaced as a cd came loose somehow and jammed up everything. My local guy said “it wasn’t worth fixing because of cost”, and he wasn’t sure he could get the part needed. I literally said “I don’t care what it costs please do whatever you can. It ended up around $300 but truthfully I’d have paid double! I’m a cd guy, always have been…

Thank you for the replies! Only 1 XLR cable? My processor is the Krell Foundation. What would be the best way to connect? I need the 2 XLR’s for left and right for the streamer, no? And then the RCA’s left and right from the Pontus to the Krell?

Thank you @cleeds! I figured it was ok, but honestly haven’t heard of anyone doing it. No extra burden or no harm to the Pontus right?

Thank you @soix! No actually that's MY bad, I should have known that's what you meant😖. So both devices would then share the same inputs? Wow would have never thought that possible. That would be weird though because I have the XLR named as "Eversolo" and the cd player as "Elite" on the Krell. So I would then just always keep it as "Eversolo" but I'd still be able to play the CD player under the "Eversolo" input, right? 

Full disclosure I already have the CD player connected to DENAFRIPS Ares DAC but would like to sell that DAC and declutter my system a bit which is what prompted me to inquire about this,,,,

Damn, thank you for pointing this out. I actually emailed Alvin at Vinshine about this and they're currently on holiday break...Guess I'd better put those plans on hold 😔

So that being the case, then I would just switch between Coax and USBB on Pontus to switch from CD player to streamer, right?

Thanks again All!

So yup decided that’s the route I’m going! I’ll list the Ares II, AQ Water RCA’s. AQ Coffee Coax and add my Transparent Coax (XLR’s are Transparent and I already have the Transparrent Premium Coax hanging around) to the Pontus. 
 

So I can actually upgrade my cd sound and hopefully get some extra $ in my pocket. How often do you get to do that😌?

@asvjerry of course I agree, if I didn’t try to get all that initial mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers I would have never discovered my 2 BJ faves😉😂😌!