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| Preamps built Into DACs .... I believe it was probably abandoned because it is very difficult to implement. It puts another layer of complexity and linearity concerns on top of the architecture....The worlds #1 manufacturer of cost no object DACs just released a >$100... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Charles. Fair enough. With the lineup of DACs your listing I can't say you have been skimping on hardware. You got me tempted to try to insert a preamp and give it another try.Thankfully I don't have any rackspace :) left. Do you still own the Coi... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs They are equally troubling in my mind, and for this reason I have been avoiding them like the plague. However, my ears are telling me otherwise now, and the fact that a number of >$20 DACs use them suggest they can't be all that bad. It is conc... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Steve, DCS latest gear has an all digital VC. Why would they have moved to all digital if they had a better mousetrap before? Given that their latest "stack" sells for over $100K I can harldy imagine they did this to save cost. I have a hunch the ... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Keep in mind the VC is only part of the design. You never listen to just the VC. There are very good DACs with analog, digital and hybrid VCs. It is conceivable a very good dac that has a digital VC could be improved upon by making it hybrid or an... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Here is one way of looking at it. All the available musical information is encoded in the digital signal. This includes all the timbre, body, spacial information, decay and what have you. The DAC converts this digital information to an analog sign... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Charles, you are making the incorrect assumption that my current preference to take the (tube) preamp out of the chain is motivated by different preferance in sound (i.e. clean versus full bodied). I thinkg we both strive to recreate the experienc... | |
| New Music Recommendations 2012 Just picked up the new Dave Matthews album "AWay from the world". His best yet IMO. Very introspective, beautiful melodies. Literally heard it once on my way to work and am hooked already. My favorite 2012 album to date. | |
| Preamps built Into DACs So I ditched a $10K 2 box preamp (Modwright 36.5 LS/PS) in favor of a digital volume control, simple because taking it out sounded better to me. Here is another consideration. Price / performance. Let's say you have a 4K DAC with a build in volume... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Hk_fan, in the case of digital domain volume control this is certainly not the case - you do in fact eliminate the "preamp circuitry" entirely. I don't know precisely how Empirical Audio's and Weiss volume control work, but I suspect they also eli... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs Many have ditched very expensive preamps for a well implemented volume control in the DAC(including me). Considering the amount of loss incurred in an analog cable and running signal through additional circuits I am not surprised. To me there are ... | |
| Best one-chasis CD/SACD player under $15 000? You can pick up a used EMM Labs XDS1 in that pricerange. Probably not quite the same caliber, but a lot cheaper would be Krell Evolution 505. | |
| Wanted: NHT X2 electronic crossover. Valles. I never received your message and meanwhile agreed to sell to Ernie. Sorry about that. Should is fall through I'll hold it for you. | |
| The New PS Audio PWD MKII Goldmanjay, You may want to look into single box solutions, like the Olive server, or get something like the Bryston server and connect it to a DAC. These are the more foolproof solutions. Better results can be had for less money if you build your... | |
| Wanted: NHT X2 electronic crossover. Valles, look for one of my current ads and ask me a private question so we can exchange email. |