I recently decided to change my Duet from wireless to wired, and am very happy with the stability and the fact I can now easily listen to FLAC without a niggling worry in the back of my head of a drop out and re-buffering.
As you can see from my signature, I run RCA through passive attenuation directly to 2 monoblock amps. I have been interested in making the following change: 1. Getting a DAC (have my eye on DACmagic due to the cost, and the footprint) 2. Change from RCA to balanced XLR cables (both the amps and DACmagic support this) The problem is volume attenuation because I do not have, nor do I want, a preamp. I am worried about not having any attenuation by running the DACmagic direct, but I think that would yield the best sound. How bad an idea would it be to run with only software attenuation? Anyone done/do it? Are there any smallish comparable DACs to the DACmagic which has attenuation built in? Peter -- ob_kook Duet --> Axiom passive pre --> Portal Paladin monoblocks --> Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII SB2 --> Denon AVR4800 --> Klipsch KG4 Squeezebox Boom Squeezeserver running on a virtual Win7 machine within 2008 R2 Server Hyper-V ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86186 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
