Hi, First post so be gentle with me!
As a long time hi-fi user, lover of music and serial upgrader I ended up with the following system, Naim: CDX2 / XPS2 282 HiCap 200 Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor speakers. All with Naim cables. I looked at upgrading my pre/power amp and realised to get any greater improvement (using Naim) I would have to spend serious ££'s i.e 252 / Supercap / 250.2 This lead me to buying a Dave Berning ZH270 amp from the States on recommendation from a friend. This was probably the first time in decades I bought some kit without listening to it! I was rewarded when I heard the amp and my Naim amps went up for sale. At this point I started to look at alternative CDP's and the same friend suggested; as I was a Mac user that I should consider using my Mac and DAC as my digital source. I loaned a Benchmark DAC1 (USB) and hooked up my Mac using the optical 3.5mm mini plug to toslink and did side by side tests with a standard USB. I preferred the optical cable. I also experimented with phono RCAs to my amp and ended up with XLR's from the DAC to my amp. The sound was in my opinion very, very close to that of the CDX2 / XPS2 combo! I love the idea of all my tunes stored on a hard disk, with instant access and I was wondering if I had SB3, say modified by Boulder Cables (on the digital side) and then hooked this to a DAC1 via a digital coaxial, would this likely imrove the sound above that of my Mac/DAC1 combo. Would like to hear your views. MontyW -- Monty_W ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monty_W's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39182
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