Looking for opinions on either bypassing a preamp or going direct to power amp with the Meitner MA-3 - how is everyone who has one been using it? If still using a preamp, which won out over direct? And if direct, which preamp did it beat out?
I have a MA-3 and with many sources I need to use a preamp, an Ayre KX-5 Twenty. I did try the MA-3 direct to the Ayre VX-5 Twenty amp and did not hear any difference.
Preamp. It’s a pretty darn good digital volume control but an above average preamp should beat it out. Same with the internal streamer (a quality separate is unsurprisingly better). Nothing unique to Meitner, in my experience this is typically true of all dacs.
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