Wombat;616747 Wrote: > Now that you rave about this Caiman DAC all the time i looked what it > is. > What is the kick-ass preamp stage? From the inner picture i found it is > a simple OP amp. > Besides that you can find many user reviews from raving its sounds like > the best for its money to some that even find their Asus PC audio card > more detailed. > Nowhere i found real measurements to back anything up. Is there > anywhere on the net? > > Edit: from the picture i have i see it uses basic voltage regulators, > the digital input doesn´t have an input isolatoing transformer and i > see no crystal oscillator but this may be hidden. So you get some > hardware with a standard up-to-date DAC chip for fair money.
The reason I call it kick-ass preamp is that, if I use it straight into my DPA 200s power amp, I don't hear any degradation in sound quality from using my DPA preamp. Which is quite an accomplishment. So, my recommendation is strictly based on the subjective listening impressions. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86186
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