Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review.
If I am hell bent on hearing some "tube magic" with a solid state amp, I need to use a tube preamp. In that case, where should I set the volume on the DAC? Is it the same answer as above?At least 70% or more so your sure it's not "bit striping" If your hell bent on tube sound, use a tube pre with little or no gain. A Schiit Saga+ is tube and 1 x tube gain, and can also be used as a passive pre as well. https://www.schiit.com/products/saga-2 Cheers George |
Yep, that’s the way I read it too. What a great thing to have, to know when volume is too high and the load is too hard for the dacs output buffer. It’s got a distortion sensor that blinks the red led, nice. This will prove to you if it’s not loud enough direct and you need more gain from an active preamp. " “CLIP” indicator: Will blink when the DAC output signal is clipping. You should not turn the volume knob higher than to where the red “CLIP” LED will not blink."And it may blink at different volume positions, depending on what load the dac’s output buffer sees, (the 10kohm of the DNA-500 or the variable input 30k -120k of the CJ-17LS2 depending on it’s volume position.) So if you’ve just turned it back down a little from where it blinked, what’s that volume like when you go direct to poweramp? Cheers George |
Really? By who? I have never heard of him Settle petal, don’t get around/couldn’t be bothered searching. I said in my opening post "digital designer" not just dac’s Just search at DiyAudio with conversations he has with digital gurus over there and with the likes of Nelson Pass and John Curl etc. Then look at his family digital communications business in Denmark. I believe this Dac part is just for his musical passion and had to get involved in it. Cheers George |
