Alright,
So given the mediocre state of AVRs across the board, as Amir has demonstrated with his measurements, what solutions are there to keep your AVR (I have a Yamaha A2070) but add a good external DAC/Streamer + a good 2 channel amp for music listening? For movies I'm not as concerned about the highest fidelity, but for music, which is what I mainly use my system for anyway, I do want better.
Ideally this would allow for switching between the AVR and the DAC + AMP setup without having to switch around cables each time. Is there an easy way to do this? I suppose the easiest way is to attach the DAC as external input the AVR, and then use the AVRs pre-out to the AMP, but it seems that with at least some of the AVRs there isn't just a straight pass-through option, and some form of processing (i.e. ADC > DAC conversion) is happening. So what other solutions are out there?
As for Streamer DACs (so a DAC that can connect to my local NAS library for FLAC, or to online streaming such as Spotify/Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz), are there any affordable ones that are good? Are there any with room correction? (will probably add to cost, I know, but I do need to EQ the low-end in my room or it's very bloated).
So given the mediocre state of AVRs across the board, as Amir has demonstrated with his measurements, what solutions are there to keep your AVR (I have a Yamaha A2070) but add a good external DAC/Streamer + a good 2 channel amp for music listening? For movies I'm not as concerned about the highest fidelity, but for music, which is what I mainly use my system for anyway, I do want better.
Ideally this would allow for switching between the AVR and the DAC + AMP setup without having to switch around cables each time. Is there an easy way to do this? I suppose the easiest way is to attach the DAC as external input the AVR, and then use the AVRs pre-out to the AMP, but it seems that with at least some of the AVRs there isn't just a straight pass-through option, and some form of processing (i.e. ADC > DAC conversion) is happening. So what other solutions are out there?
As for Streamer DACs (so a DAC that can connect to my local NAS library for FLAC, or to online streaming such as Spotify/Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz), are there any affordable ones that are good? Are there any with room correction? (will probably add to cost, I know, but I do need to EQ the low-end in my room or it's very bloated).