terfenol-D
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I currently have a Pro-ject Pre Box S2 Digital -> minidsp -> amp. I am thinking about changing up my digital equipment for two reasons - would like to give DIRAC a try and the various settings on the Pro-ject bother me. I feel like a Dac should just output a sound without various controls such as Distortion Compensate, Audio Quality, and the 8 different filter settings. The directions give virtually no description as to the different controls. My favorite is the Audio Quality description - the test setting states it gives the best value when using testing equipment but then states best is the preffered setting...WTF?????
I'm thinking about two different equipment chains:
SHD Studio -> Benchmark Dac -> Amp or
SHD -> Amp
How does the SHD Studio work to adjust the eq/DIRAC settings? Does it have both a DAC and ADC in it? In other words, does it convert the digital stream to an audio file to do the EQ'ing and then back to digital to send the stream to the outboard DAC? Or does it somehow eq the digital stream?
With the SHD being more of a straight pre-amp is there a way to turn off the volume control? I have a Yamaha integrated that has volume control on it. I would like to only use that one for my wife's usability. I can only imagine the panicked calls I will get at work when she can't figure out why there is no sound/maximum volume despite her turning the volume knob.
Yes - I know there should be no audible difference between the two DAC's...I've just always wanted a benchmark dac.
I'm thinking about two different equipment chains:
SHD Studio -> Benchmark Dac -> Amp or
SHD -> Amp
How does the SHD Studio work to adjust the eq/DIRAC settings? Does it have both a DAC and ADC in it? In other words, does it convert the digital stream to an audio file to do the EQ'ing and then back to digital to send the stream to the outboard DAC? Or does it somehow eq the digital stream?
With the SHD being more of a straight pre-amp is there a way to turn off the volume control? I have a Yamaha integrated that has volume control on it. I would like to only use that one for my wife's usability. I can only imagine the panicked calls I will get at work when she can't figure out why there is no sound/maximum volume despite her turning the volume knob.
Yes - I know there should be no audible difference between the two DAC's...I've just always wanted a benchmark dac.