There is no right way and only you can experiment and decide. When I had the Legacy Aeris and Wavelet system, by default it required everything to be processed in digital to be converted back to analog. While many reviewers, owners, and measurements claim they could not tell the difference, I felt I could, and it made me step away from the Wavelet altogether. Not to say I wouldn’t recommend it, it is a fantastic piece of gear from anyone who wants a perfectly linear response. But it’s perhaps I who appreciate the slight color different gear bring to the table, and the piece of mind ensuring that jitter doesn’t get injected into my analog signals. The only digital processing I allow in my system today is for bass, 200hz and below. It’s no means the right way, just my way.
Connecting a phonostage to a processor.
Hello, this might seem like a dumb question, but I currently have a Parasound JC3 plus phonostage connected via RCA cables to my Classe Sigma SSP. My Classe has a digital bypass option, which allows the analog signal to pass freely to the amp. Would I be degrading the sound quality if I did not use the bypass feature, thereby sending an analog signal to Classe, then having the analog signal running through the DAC of my processor? Seems like that would be an extra layer of processing that would cause some distortion. However, I think my turntable actually sounds slightly better not using the bypass option.