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That’s part of what I’m hoping to find out. There’s the school of thought that there’s no perceptible difference between any digital devices up to the dac, also that dacs are so similar that you may as well buy the best value unit with the features you want, class D amps are pretty much transparent, so the only thing giving character to your sound is the speakers.
If that’s the case I’ll likely get rid of most of my home kit, get that Denon just-add-speakers streaming amp I linked to up thread and for the big rig at the shop look at installing all those mini boxes inside the speaker cabinets for a fully active setup. Or fuck all that off for a pair of OTP actives.
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There seems to be an element of hifi bullshit about the streaming part of the equation. As far as I can tell anything that delivers the 0s and 1s will do. Any dither will be dealt with by the DAC.
The DACs seem to all use the same basic chips and the Chinese guys seem to have started using decent power supplies.
The class D amps seem to provide clean power for a fraction of the cost of conventional class A amps from the usual suspects.Add miniDSP and room correction..
Can't wait for the chinese manufacturers to figure out speakers!
hurricane_run
I think you have lots of permutations and tinkering ahead! Trying the Toppings as amps or dacs, L/R v frequency, where the sub cut off should be in the dsp etc..
Who knows what will sound best! Really interesting.. Keep us posted.. I'm really interested how the mismatched pricey amps fare against the chi-fi
I wonder if the new hifi paradigm is to spend all your cash on speakers, then drive with multiple chi fi amps, fed with cheap DAC and mini dsp