You mean those DACs that output 4V? Something like the D90SE goes to 5V. Guess its too shit to be paired with this amplifier? D400ES? Absolute trash. Okto Dac8? Useless. X-Sabre pro? Simply not good enough.I don't know. I think it does not really make much sense to combine a superb amplifier like this with anything other than a similarly superb DAC/preamp.
If I follow your train of logic something from RME also won't be good enough, because it has too much distortion/noise. It will lower the performance of this amplifier (at least at 5W@1khz). So you need something a bit more superb. Something like the Mola Mola Tambaqui is what you need for your use case.
Or just add a buffer stage.
True, you often find them used in combination with receivers who can barely push 2V.Guess what: This kind of assembled nCore amps also are a very small part of the market.
Gets a bit rough if its more than two you are comparing, but I get your point.Just open them in different tabs and switch.
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