cliveb;224918 Wrote: > I agree that very good A/D converters cost a lot of money. But we're > talking about vinyl here, which is not really much of a challenge. I'd > suggest that a Lucid AD9624, which can be had for under a grand, is > easily good enough to transparently cope with anything that comes off a > turntable. Probably even an old M-Audio Flying Calf would do fine. (And > I say this as a user of a Linn LP12/Lingo/Ittok/Karma - it's not as if > I don't appreciate decent vinyl replay). > > Contrast this to the price of the ATC SCA2 preamp, which costs about > £4,000. > > I don't really have an "obsession" about eliminating the preamp. I just > happen to think that it's worth doing if you can't afford the mega-price > of a genuinely transparent preamp. I ditched a £2,500 preamp once I > heard the improvement gained by removing it from the system.
Clive, I am now running the same system as you, and it is the best system I have heard ;it will certainly keep me happy! Thanks for all the help. Transporter-> ATC 100s. -- iwalker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iwalker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13004 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33868
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