Thanks everyone for your interest. My system is as follows. Prima Luna evo 400 power amp, Prima Luna evo 200 pre amp ,Kanta number two’s.Anolog playback is Rega p6 with Aptheta moving coil run through Gold Note phono pre with its matching linear power supply all that thru Torus power conditioner ,intercnects and cables a mixture of Acustic Zen,Kimber and AQ . No Dac currently just the Denon streamer/ dac combo which doesn’t quite cut it . Budget for the dac would be in the two thousand range. Thanks again for your input.
New streamer or dac?
So when I put my system together the idea was strictly vinyl,I eventually added a budget streamer thinking I’d use it for background music or puttering around the house when its not practical to listen to records. I became immediately consumed with it after subscribing to Tidal ,the idea of being able to listen to anything that pops into head is just fantastic,Im enjoying music like never before.Im ready to swap out the $600 unit for something a little more inline with the rest of the equipment in the system but am not sure if another option might be better. So my question is would it maybe be a better idea to buy a Dac and use the inexpensive steamer with it as a transport until I could afford to change it out also ? or would it make more sense to just buy a new streamer/ Dac unit ( I like the Aruender ) any thoughts on that would be appreciated,thanks in advance.
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@pwayland If you are using a PSA DS DAC with built in streaming card you have already done away with the I2s unless you want to connect a CDT by I2s. There is an advantage to having a streaming card in a DAC, Mola Mola and DCS do this also but I seriously don't believe this setup could compare to a full blown streamer with or without separate DAC. The jury is out on eliminating "old tech" such as AES/EBU which GENERALLY gives better sound even over I2s and mostly over USB depending on your setup. The PSA DS upsamples everything to DSD, it's not a bad idea but you can't select individual frequency settings. |
@bikeboy52 looks like your cooking up the goods analog source. Sweet man! I'm a pure digital source guy who digs deep into analog Class A amplification and exact phase and time coherent speakers. The goods are DAC streamer to you preamp, unless your streamer can send I2S protocol to your DAC. Any other interface to the DAC will struggle to provide bit perfect input.
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