AV Receiver as a DAC
Posted by: Geoff P on 18 December 2009
OK so I have never contributed here before so if I am asking a question that has been done to death already apologies...just pop a link in and that will be that...otherwise here goes.
Has anybody compared the audio results using the likes of a Denon ( or similar) AV Reeceiver as a DAC vs the usual suspects in the dedicated DAC arena discussed here ( Lavry and such).
I am using my portable PCs S/PDIF socket to stream digital from the HDD. In the absence of a dedicated DAC I am streaming into my Denon AV3xxx which I have setup to feed its front stereo pre-amp outputs into my 552 A/V input and onward to the 500 and my Kharma speakers. This sounds bloody excellent to me, streaming WAV files. In principle since the DAC's in the AV receiver are full spec Burr Brown 192/24 bit I suspect they are just as good as those in a dedicated DAC but I don't have one to compare.....hence I wondered if anybody here had done this comparison.
regards
Geoff
Has anybody compared the audio results using the likes of a Denon ( or similar) AV Reeceiver as a DAC vs the usual suspects in the dedicated DAC arena discussed here ( Lavry and such).
I am using my portable PCs S/PDIF socket to stream digital from the HDD. In the absence of a dedicated DAC I am streaming into my Denon AV3xxx which I have setup to feed its front stereo pre-amp outputs into my 552 A/V input and onward to the 500 and my Kharma speakers. This sounds bloody excellent to me, streaming WAV files. In principle since the DAC's in the AV receiver are full spec Burr Brown 192/24 bit I suspect they are just as good as those in a dedicated DAC but I don't have one to compare.....hence I wondered if anybody here had done this comparison.
regards
Geoff