Maybe bring out the preamp anyway , unless you use analog attenuators (or the power amp has adjustable gain ) . I may be wrong is this an integrated classe or a power amp ?
Touch volume is digital that is normally not a problem but if you are very low on the volume scale it could be ? I once had a classe amp it had high sensitivity ? for comparison note that if you use replay gain you drop -10dB in volume. If you are to compare try to calibrate the volume as it is not likely that your CD player or Touch sounds equally loud (radio schah spl meter would do ) and turn of replay gain/smart gain And as you say you have many unknown at the same time , you cant asses what is what really . Speakers you never heard before ? and you havent heard good stuff in your home for years ? the human sound memory is not really that good soo the events are a bit to far separated in time too ? Suggest getting used to new speakers ,just listen to music a week or two ,do some placement experiments with them to get them to perform their best they might need some "burn in" but actually it is often the listener that gets accustomed to the sound, but speakers could in same cases need it for real (most other components don't contrary to popular opinion ). I have just briefly used the analog outs into my old speakers so I have no solid opinion that could help (and that to was a long time ago ) and I did not eminently had any analog CD player of any kind to compare with. Touch could possible be bettered by a very good dac , Touch is not state of the art in all aspects the price point makes for some compromises . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97483
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