mapman
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| Preamps built Into DACs "However for well-designed DACs with volume controls, even these will be crushed. There are only a couple out there that accomplish this BTW, so it is likely that you have not heard them."Steve, please list or reference if you have already.Thanks. | |
| Preamps built Into DACs " All the available musical information is encoded in the digital signal. This includes all the timbre, body, spacial information, decay and what have you. "I agree with this and part of why I think the potential for pure digital amps is huge even... | |
| Tannoy vs Klipsch My exposure is limited but I tend to think of Tannoy as more British sounding Klipsch, similar to other differences between many North AMerican/US lines and British competition.Then there are "French" horns and the French sound. Triangle has moved... | |
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| Preamps built Into DACs "It just so happens, my current system (with digital volume control), give me a more body, tone and dynamics than anyting I have ever owned, tubes included. We have the same destination, but just get there with different technology. "Myself, I wou... | |
| Preamps built Into DACs It makes a lot of sense to bundle preamp and dac these days much like pre-amp and phono pre-amp have been bundled into some pre-amps for years. The fact is digital is the norm now, not phono. So it is a natural thing to do. May not be the best/rig... | |
| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips I think I've seen their literature says it changes molecular structures somehow or something along that line. | |
| Preamps built Into DACs If you have just digital sources there is probably no good technical reason to have a pre-amp. I'm sure there are very good dac with volume controls out there. Maybe to introduce tubes in the pre-amp if a tube sound only fan. | |
| Preamps built Into DACs In general, my only concern about a DAC and pre-amp in a single box would be how well is the pre-amp section shielded from RFI generated by the digital circuits/DAC? In general, I would prefer these in separate boxes separated by space as an insur... | |
| Looking for a GREAT preamp under $2000...thoughts? I should note that SP-16 has a very good built in phono stage. It requires at least one very low noise 12AX7 tube as the main of the three in the phono section to perform best though.I don't think the Bel Canto pre-amps come with built in phono, b... | |
| Looking for a GREAT preamp under $2000...thoughts? I am strongly considering a Bel Canto pre-amp in that price range for SS pre-amp.For a tube pre-amp, the ARC sp-16 is very good (when the tubes are as well) and can come in well under $2000 used. | |
| How Black is Your Background? "In hifi I would say black is a signal with no noise, hiss, colouration. The cables would accurately present the music from the source to the speakers."Cables might affect the coloration part but not sure any decent properly functioning cable woul... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Looking at the Class D Audio products, I recall now they appear to be a proprietary Class D design, not based on Icepower. So having not heard these, comparisons to Wyred or other Icepower amps by me would be pre-mature. There could be major sonic... | |
| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips " I think it has most likely to do with RFI/EMI suppression"THat would be my guess as well.RFI/EMI noise is essentially always present and devices that work based on proximity to circuits are most likely affecting this somehow IMHO.IF so, then the... |