khewa Wrote: > with the digital amps, why do we need to be concerned with a DAC ? I'm > gonna get the Panasonic XR55 soon and I'm gonna hook up the SB3 Digital > Out to the Panasonic and get the DAC out of the equation. No more > wondering if Benchmark is gonna cut or is it the Lawry's. You can't get DACs out of the equation. Somewhere in the replay chain, you need one. The XR55 has a DAC inside. If its analogue inputs go through an ADC then onto the DAC, then you're right: there's no point using any other DAC. But if its analogue inputs can be routed direct (bypassing any ADCs and DACs inside the unit), then you have to consider the possibility that a different DAC might be better than the one in the XR55. Given the low price of the XR55 and the shedload of facilities it has, it seems highly likely to me that a specialist DAC like the Benchmark will be significantly better. Even the SB3's internal DAC might be noticably better than the XR55's.
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