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Recommendation from dCS gear owners

I have all dCS gear (Verdi->Purcell->Delius) I was thinking of adding a preamp, the Delius is directly driving my Sonic Frontiers Power 3 mono tube amps that drive Genesis 350. I need the preamp so I can integrate my HT. Currently I have to switch cables back and forth. My question here is, if I go for a reference level preamp like ML 32, Pass X-02, AR REF 2, or BAT VK-51SE would I get any improvements? of course I would have to add another set of interconnects on the way but assume that I will also use reference quality cables. I would like to here from those who have similar gear and did comparison with and without preamp.
thanks
p.s. I live overseas and doing such comparison myself will be very costly.
myoussif

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tok20000
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I have said several times in threads that controlling volume with a digital preamp is not the way to go. However, I would have thought DCS might be able to do it as well as a good preamp. Jfrech, has changed my mind. If DCS does not do it well at low volumes, probably no company does it well at low volumes. I have had a Camelot Uther DAC/ditial preamp (not quite in the same league as the DSC gear), and came to the same conclusions that Jfrech did.

Anyway, I would suggest an Ayre K-1x preamp if you can afford one. I have the K-3x, and it is... well amazing. I can only what the 1x sounds like.

My 2 Cents.

KF
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tok20000
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Could you guys comment about digital preamps in this thread?

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1033654726

We would appreciate your wisdom.

Thanks,

KF
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