Atlantic wrote: > Very interesting thoughts. (I don't know anything about DACs and > today's amps - we only have traditional analogue kit, actually just > integrated miniHiFi systems with various analogue inputs.) I think > you're saying that most analogue conventional amps are ok, but not the > multichannel kit (such as the OP's Denon?). I've been thinking about > the Harmon Kardon range - in particular the stereo items such as > > http://uk.harmankardon.com/harman-kardon-product-detail-uk/hk-3490.html > > It's a very big box, though. This has digital in (co-ax, and optical - > are those a 'standard', do you think, so that the Squeezebox digital > outputs would 'just work' into these) and presumably has a DAC and, I > guess reasonable conventional amps? Do you feel that this kind of kit > has better 2-channel performance than the sort of AV equipment that you > were worried about? And, the same question as the OP raised, external > DAC could be placed between an SQbox and this amp, so only using the amp > as an analogue device? In your view, using analogue power stages is ok > from the point of view of next step up in quality, (or not)? > > Again, thanks for the basic but very useful (to me, too) thread > > regards, Atlantic
Nice amp, the 3490, very clean and powerful and stable into 4 ohms. I have my Touch connected to mine via coax in my 2-channel/vinyl rig. Its internal DAC is apparently a 24/96 AKM. Sounds good enough that I've never bothered to hook the SB to it via analog outs. Sub-outs and pre-out/main-in jacks are handy as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Gilvey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
