Can I hook up a DCS Puccini player/preamplifier directly to an ARC GS150 ampilifier?


Do I require an intermediate preamplifier? I am driving impedance-challenged Wilson WattPuppy 7 speakers, and I am a lover of tube amplifiers.

Thanking folks in advance - Gerry
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Showing 1 response by folkfreak

A word of warning. DCS output drivers are not the best in the world. I own a full Vivaldi stack and there is a clear loss of transparency in using its balanced output over the single ended (in both cases into my ARC Ref 40 with identical AQ WEL interconnects)

Secondly see this lengthy discussion of the risks in trying to drive a tube power amp directly from a Rossini
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-jadis-ja200mk2-review-or-slam

personally if I was you I wouldn’t try this, a good tube pre will sound much better