Quote Originally Posted by Darren66 View Post
Have been reading through all this with great interest. At the moment I use flac and wav files on HDD into laptop running jriver 20 into DAC,then into Cambridge Audio 840a amp. So with the pi2/IQ-Audio DAC+ People are talking about connecting to pre amp or power amp.Does any one know if you connect to a intergrated amp you loose some of the benefits of this set up. I'm new to this so if it's a stupid question I apologise.
Thanks Darren.
The IQ Audio DAC seems to be a bit special in the way it handles its output to the amplifier. But it and other Pi based DACs just plug into the integrated amplifier or pre or passive pre, just like any source would. I'm currently using a Sabre based board into an integrated amplifier with no issues.