Caiman DAC

[Codifus]

dont underestimate the power of the stan-dac

does your amp have the option to connect directly into the power amp?
a lot of nad amps have that option it could be interesting to see if the standac would act as a better pre amp than the pre in your nad...
of course you would loose the option to connect any analogue sources and you would have no remote control...
but the sound quality might be better!
give the dac a little while to settle down and then get fiddleing!
it really is a great bit of kit with a world of uses

That's exactly what I did with my Yamaha AX-596. I completely bypassed the pre-amp and connected my 7520 directly to the power amp section. I could not believe how much I had been missing before, and I'm listening to my whole music collection again because of this change. It's literally like a whole new system.

Now I have to find a way to input all my analog sources, because I am definitely not going back.

CD

[The Vinyl Adventure]

That's exactly what I did with my Yamaha AX-596. I completely bypassed the pre-amp and connected my 7520 directly to the power amp section. I could not believe how much I had been missing before, and I'm listening to my whole music collection again because of this change. It's literally like a whole new system.

Now I have to find a way to input all my analog sources, because I am definitely not going back.

CD

lean on stan to make a a full blown pre amp.. its been suggested to him before! from what i remember he really likes being nagged to design more expensive higher end products

[The Grand Wazoo]

That's exactly what I did with my Yamaha AX-596. I completely bypassed the pre-amp and connected my 7520 directly to the power amp section. I could not believe how much I had been missing before, and I'm listening to my whole music collection again because of this change. It's literally like a whole new system.

Now I have to find a way to input all my analog sources, because I am definitely not going back.

CD

Maybe we can persuade Stan to put together a switchable Analogue to Digital convertor for just that purpose.

......Stan??

[Marktdac]

No it doesnt have that uv got ur usual array of inputs and a tape loop in/out ,thats it

Its nads bottom of the range sounds good but not much in the way of extras ,does me anyway

Have now got Caimen connected to amp , and to be honest can not here the slightest bit of diffrence when i switch over the inputs on the amp

It doesnt matter whether im useing the dac in the cd player or the dac in the Caimen ,to me i cant really tell any difference ,but its early days yet

And like i said previously i always thought the nad cd sounded excellent

Mark

[The Grand Wazoo]

That doesn't sound right to me, Mark (not that I doubt what you're hearing).
Are you sure you've got it all connected properly?
You really should be hearing a significant difference, I'd have thought.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

i used to have a c320 amp that had the relevent conections.. i guess the c315 is prob just a more simple version of the one i had! .. i used to love my nad kit!
i guess if you cant hear a difference its not worth doing... give it a chance to burn in though like you say and give it another go... its def worth a try!

[Marktdac]

It doesnt bother me about gettin better sound out of my cd player its the laptop and headphone side im really looking at

At the moment though iv not got a proper coaxial lead im useing one side of a QED interconnect ,iv read it needs to be 75 ohms maybe thats the problem ?

What are u lot useing in the way of coaxial leads my interconnects are a cimbination of chord and qed

Mark

[The Vinyl Adventure]

It doesnt bother me about gettin better sound out of my cd player its the laptop and headphone side im really looking at

well you have done the right thing buying a standac then
its very good at that sort of thing!

[Gazjam]

Just a daft thought, and kinda going with the thread flow...

I want to eventually get a poweramp (2nd hand Quad or whatever) to run my Dac as a Pre...but my current Cambridge 640A amp doesnt have the sockets like the Nad/Yamaha.

BUT...

I have the 540R Av reciever, with Pre-outs and 6.1 direct In sockets.
From the web other folk have used the 540R as a poweramp, and if I can try my 7520 this way (even just as a test) It would be great.

Anyone any pointers how I can do this (if it CAN be done?)

Ta.

[Tripmaster]

Hi

Just out of interest, what is Stans background with regards to audio electronics?

Richard