rbclark;164805 Wrote: > Hi all. 1st post here. Just got my SB3 & I love it! With the help of > this forum & the wiki, I've been able to get over my learning curve > issues easily! > > Quick history: My house for sale a while back kept my good gear in the > attic (took up too much space said the realtor). Been in the new house > a couple years and we've just been using a crappy Sony all-in-one > system (it's small) but it's a pain to shuffle CDs thru. We had > practically stopped listening to music. Tried the SB and suddenly... > all our music is back! > > So now I'd like to take things a little further and get some of the old > "good" gear out of the attic. I have a B&K AVP3000 pre-amp (as well as a > B&M AV5000 amp) and an Audio Alchemy DDE v3.0 with Power Station Three. > > The question is, where's my best DAC amongst this gear? > > I bought the DAC back in 1998 some years(?) after the B&K amp/pre-amp. > So I'd assume the only reason I bought the DAC was that it was an > upgrade over the DAC in the B&K pre-amp. But this DAC is over 8 years > old and I've read (on this forum somewhere) that even DACs only a few > years old probably aren't as good as the DAC in the SB. > > Can anyone say that my SB DAC should be better than my Audio Alchemy > DDE v3.0 DAC? > > Thanks! > Bob My experience with this B&K preamp was that it has fairly high background noise as compared to my passive unit.
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