richidoo;136567 Wrote: > The SB analog stage sounds very good at full volume. Reducing SB volume > reveals the noise that has been there all along, but does not reduce > the quality of the music. Regardless of noise level, the music is still > not being colored by an external preamp, just as it is not using an > external DAC with a VC. My testing of the SB3's analog outputs was all done at full volume, and as stated before, the SB3's analog output was significantly worse than running its digital output through outboard DACs. In other words, the SB3's internal DAC was not nearly as good as either of the external DACs I tested it against. (In all the tests I did, the final line level analog signal was sent through a preamp before the amp.)
The point of my post was that if JohnSwenson was saying in his post that the analog output of the SB3 straight to amps was better than sending that output through his high end preamp, then he should be able to get even better sound quality by sending the SB3's digital output through an external DAC. -- TiredLegs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TiredLegs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27275 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
