seanadams;41172 Wrote: > Before getting into which DAC is better, the thing to find out is > whether your receiver is putting all of its signals through a digital > path internally (a quick googling didn't tell me specifically about your > model, but there's much mention of ADCs so I suspect so). If that's the > case, you're better off using a digital connection into the receiver to > eliminate a D->A at the source and another A-D into the receiver. > > By the way, the A->D->A conversion that is common in modern receivers > is not inherently a bad thing. For something with a lot of channels > in/out, it's probably cleaner to get it straight into zeroes and ones > rather than switching the analog signals and passing them all around > inside the box from one PCB to another. I'm sure on some forum there's a > lengthy and well-informed debate that could be cited here...
It's not a bad thing considering the purpose of an A/V receiver and what it does but it's unacceptable for an audiophile setup. Which is why consumer level A/V receivers are not audiophile components. I would run a Duet into an A/V receiver for convenience but a separate Transporter into a simple audio grade pre-amp for quality. The SB system lets you switch them easily anyway. -- sxr71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sxr71's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14599 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
