Welcome to AoS Andy.
I think most of your questions have already been answered; but there are, as they say, many ways to 'skin a cat'.
Whichever route you choose it need not cost a fortune.
Enjoy the Forum
Barry
Welcome to AoS Andy.
I think most of your questions have already been answered; but there are, as they say, many ways to 'skin a cat'.
Whichever route you choose it need not cost a fortune.
Enjoy the Forum
Barry
Barry
Hi welcome to AOS, I have a Pioneer Network Player with my CD collection ripped to FLAC, and the FLAC files on a USB stick, The Pioneer Network Player plays via Optical to my new Beresford SEG Dac, onto my amp via RCA. All just about within budget and works brilliant
Amp Rega Elex-R
CDP Denon DCD 520
Tuner Teac T-R650 Dab/FM
Music Player Pioneer N30 Network Player
DAC Rega Dac-R
Speakers Q Acoustic Concept 40s
Speaker Cable Current is Rega FSC Quattro , Fisual S-Flex Studio 2.5mm / Ortofon SPK 100
Interconnects Van Damme Silver Plated OFC Pro Classic XKE CDP/Tuner & Solid Silver Cyro 99.99% Pure, Dac To Amp
Headphones AKG K550 mk3
SUB BK XLS 200
I am reading these threads just to educate myself.
Hypnotist, there is one thing I dont understand.
You say you have your Flac music on usb stick, and it is connected (sticked) to pioneer network player. Then your Pioneer is connected to Beresford DAC.
Does this Pioneer not have a good enaugh DAC? If not, why do you have it? You could feed these files to a Beresford directly. And if it does, then why do you need this Beresford?
I understand there might be reasons I dont know for this, but just to listen to Flac files, it raises these questions, could you shine some light on this?
I would guess he had the pioneer first and then bought the caiman subsequently to see if it's dac could be improved upon. A purpose built dac 'should' sound better then one crammed into a multi purpose unit but there are exceptions.
I went a similar route with a marantz av receiver. If you just want to try out streaming first then a chromecast audio into an inexpensive dac such as the topping dac would be a good way to start.
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Current system:
RPi + Allo Digione
Beresford Caiman Seg & Dorado powered by 15v Linear PSU
Transcendent Sound Mini Beast OTL
Amptastic Mini-1
Klipsch KG4.5 Speakers with Titanium Diagphrams and Sonicap Cap upgrade
110aH Leisure Battery powers the Mini-1 & Digione