Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
not to muddy the waters, but at the recent dac comparison chez Gaz, swapping out my Mogami for Ali's TQ Black improved things across the board, not just with the BM but with Ali's valve Dac too.

In this case the effect was pretty astonishing even with an "insensitive" valve dac!

Go figure...I've stopped trying to work it out
Yes, but it's more a case of the dac having good "drive" (meaning impedance matching with amp/pre would be less of an issue, so a change of i/c would be less obvious) and also that it outputs about 2.5v I think, so a little more than standard. Which might mean you would hear less of a difference swapping the i/c's from dac to pre than you would with a more conventional dac. Maybe. The TQ certainly did vastly improve matters, but I think that had more to do with amp-speaker interface than anything else.