Improve sound

I would but the ps audio DS jr dac listed at TMR, sell your bluesound unit, sell your optical cable and you will have a better sound than any of the dacs listed above. Use Ethernet to the dac, so you can run Roon or iTunes or whatever you want on your pc or Mac.

If you own this dac, you can make major upgrades to the rest of your system and this dac will not be the weak link, something you can’t say with the other dacs listed in this post, 

…The athem does have dac internal.  It's a AKM 4458 DAC 32bit 758. So would a dac still help.  I do apologize if my post causes a well why did you not tell us that moment.   I go to a lot of symphonies and I love violins.  Some times when I playAdagio for Strings Op 11. The high frequency parts sound harsh instead of clear and buetiful.

The Anthem doesn’t appear to have a headphone jack… but maybe some high impedance ear buds could hook up to the RCA outputs?
If so i would try to see if that is also not great on the violins.

if it is good, then it is not the DAC in the anthem.
And then it must be the speakers or the amp powering them..

Borrowing an amp to go from the pre out to the speakers would be a dandy data-point.

(But my impression is that the Anthem and the speakers seem like they should be pretty good.)

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I do apologize if my post causes a well why did you not tell us that moment.
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Threads evolve. Hence I would not worry.

One of the best investments in sound I made that allows me to utilize whatever my current setup to it's fullest was the purchase of a dbx Drive Rack PA2 along with a corresponding calibration mic.. It's basically automatic in set up and the results are phenomenal Of course the better the equipment the better the results. 

One of the best investments in sound I made that allows me to utilize whatever my current setup to it's fullest was the purchase of a dbx Drive Rack PA2 along with a corresponding calibration mic.. It's basically automatic in set up and the results are phenomenal Of course the better the equipment the better the results. 

And the TDAI 1120 has that inside along with the amp, DAC, and streamer.
Which as I mentioned before is a bit beyond budget… but the separate things all added together end up being the same cost.

Excellent I am looking into a dac...  Now I was working with speaker placement. On my left martin logan motion 40i.  The dang folded amt tweeter is Blown no sound!

I have no idea if I can fix that...talking with ml now via email will call tuesday.