Greetings stereophiles!
Just out of curiosity: what are you using for your cd to preamp/receiver connection: Digital coax or analog cables? How does it matter to you?
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Submitted By: Anonymous
digital or analog out?
Posted: January 2, 2006 - 12:40pm
Submitted By: Anthony Tam
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Re: digital or analog out?
Posted: January 2, 2006 - 2:20pm
Unless your pre-amp/processor or receiver has the ability to accept a digital (coax or Toslink optical) connection, analog would be the only answer.
Another factor would be the quality of your cd players onboard DAC versus your pre/pro or receiver. Or perhaps to throw in a 3rd option- a separate outboard DAC.
What components are you dealing with?
Submitted By: Anthony Tam
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Re: digital or analog out?
Posted: January 3, 2006 - 3:29pm
My mistake for making assumptions. You mean digital input, correct?
What receiver do you have? What CD player do you have?
Submitted By: Anthony Tam
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Re: digital or analog out?
Posted: January 5, 2006 - 11:43am
By careful listening and comparison. Trust your ears. I evaluate components using a combination of
A-B comparison, using reference recordings (music that is well recorded which I know very well) for critical evaluation along with semi-critical to casual listening over a period of time.
High quality DACs will have a subtle audible impact. But the DAC in your CD player may well be "better". Again, what is the hardware in question?
I have a NAD C542 as my transport (a decent player in the ~ $500 range) and a Musical Fidelity X-DACV3 (a 24bit, 192K upsampling DAC that is well regarded).
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