You might want to distill this to one question.
many a question to be answered
im relatively new to audio, so please do help as you can.
heres my setup:
xfi platinum (:/) connected to my receiver via glass optical & analog
rotel rsx-972
epos m15 loudspeakers
little lot II+ tube head amp
grado rs2s
any weak links? anything terribly suck? how come when i switch from analog to digital i hear extremely little, if any difference between the two? is the analog using the xfi's DACs and the digital using the rotel's?
if i were to get the x-meridian would it cause my xfi to crap pyramids?
also if i enable bit-matched playback, and send it through the optical cable, does my rotel convert it? and if through analog, then what? please any comments would really help.
heres my setup:
xfi platinum (:/) connected to my receiver via glass optical & analog
rotel rsx-972
epos m15 loudspeakers
little lot II+ tube head amp
grado rs2s
any weak links? anything terribly suck? how come when i switch from analog to digital i hear extremely little, if any difference between the two? is the analog using the xfi's DACs and the digital using the rotel's?
if i were to get the x-meridian would it cause my xfi to crap pyramids?
also if i enable bit-matched playback, and send it through the optical cable, does my rotel convert it? and if through analog, then what? please any comments would really help.