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My path is apparently the opposite of yours.

Just goes to show while we all have similar destinations there are lots of ways to try to get there.

(1) Sticking your DAC with its digital noise into a single chassis with all the rest of your system? Nightmare. Never heard an integrated Streamer / DAC / preamp / amp) that moved me (e.g., Devialet). With digital, isolation, power supplies and clocking are key.

(2) Agree IME, disagree - I have had cables make substantial differences- positive and negative. Get your system components down first, of course, but cables are a real part of the equation.

(3) This one blows my mind. Dissing on Class A and tube amps in favor of class D? I honestly think we have different viewpoints on the absolute sound because this is so fundamentally different from my experience. I have never heard a class D amp come within the same stadium as the top class A or tube amps.

(4) I don't have enough experience here, but in general this one makes some sense. Back in the day having a reclocker between a transport and DAC could yield a positive difference, but not so much today (syncing to an external clock is a different story, but that is technically not between components).





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