Hello!
I have been
slowly building a stereo and HT system in my living room. I don’t have much
experience with high-end audio, I used to have a modest surround AV system but
now I am really into the great sounding stereo sound.
So far my “new”
system is the following: Aesthetix Atlas Eclipse Power Amp and Aesthetix
Romulus Standard CD/DAC. I also have an Anthem D2V which I use as a pre-amp for
now. I stream the music from my NAS with a Lumin U1 mini, and my speakers are Martin
Logan Montis’s.
As the
Romulus Standard is not DSD compatible and my Atlas is an Eclipse version, I
have decided to upgrade my Romulus DAC to Eclipse as well.
The
question is, at the time of the upgrade shall I add an optional volume control to the Romulus and connect
it directly to the Atlas, or would it be much better adding a Calypso line
stage to this system?
There is a
significant price difference between these 2 options. My dealer recommends the Calypso
whenever I can afford it, and until that just use the Lumin’s digital volume
control without any pre-amp. Obviously I don’t want to spend $1500 on a volume
control if that is not a good solution, but with my limited experience and
knowledge it is hard to understand the benefit of the additional line stage, as
I don’t plan to add anymore analogue sources to my system…
Thanks in advance for the recommendations!