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Is my hearing bad?

I brought home a Bel Canto Dac2.0 to a/b against my $200 AMC cdp. I can't hear any diferences whatsoever. Soundstage, depth or imaging. Is it my ears or is the AMC better than I originally thought? I had both in the stereo direct mode through the B&K.

My system
B&K Ref 30
BAT VK-200
B&W Signature 805's
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marakanetz
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To find differences in digital playback is a great challenge since the 99.9% of differences are introduced through proper digital noise filtering in after-DAC proccess especially if different components are using the same DAC chips and all digital standards of 75Ohm signal transfering are in effect. If you change your DAC to BAT VK5 preamp than you'd probably benefit much more.

Excellent system though!
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marakanetz
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Jeff,

Investing onto amplification gives much larger and audiable differences than onto the digital source. It realy a question of integration with amplifier where one would do great and another wouldn't even without mentioning price differences.

I mentioned BAT VK5 as very versatile preamp that basically can match any poweramp and very convenient with remote.

How it will sound? I guess it will integrate great with your BAT amplifier self-evidently especially if truely-balanced path is available.
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