Checking in on this thread to see how folks' experience is. I continue to prefer my system with the Wavelet II and the Vivaldi stack, together, even though that involves an extra ADA round trip. When I run the Wavelet as my DAC, the system is still excellent, but seems a bit less organic. Yeah, I know, audiophile buzzword. but it's the best I've got.
Bill Duddleson offered to build me a 'box' that will use the speaker outputs and convert them to XLR inputs bypassing the Wavelet saving the purity of the DAC to the mids and tweets.
I'm not clear on what this means. Bill's a super-smart guy, so maybe this is obvious to him, but wouldn't this mean bypassing room correction in the Wavelet as well? I would love a way for my Vivaldi DAC to "replace" the DAC segment of the Bohmer, if everything could stay in a single digital domain, but I doubt that's a real possibility. My Valors require the preamp/crossover function of the Wavelet for now [short of a custom xover], so I can't get away from the Wavelet entirely [and don't really want to anyway].
Another reason I would love to have this option, is that I want to try some Trinnov gear ahead of the Vivaldi to see how that compares to the Bohmer.