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Question on ASR Emitter II Exclusive Battery

Just wondering, the battery pack for dmitter II
is used for Line drive section of the amplifer according to its manual. I am not quite clear what this means?. Is it the preamp section that the battery pack is used for or is there a separate line drive section somewhere in the amplifier section.
The reason I am asking is that, if I use a DAC to drive the amplifier directly via direkt XLR input (bypassing pre amp section of ASR), then is there any use for the battery section?

Thanks for your input.
suteetat
stiltskin
499 posts
 
Suteetat
Agree with Casouza

Further, this is no ordinary battery operated preamp, far from it. This also applies to the Exclusive Phono.

The preamp section is the icing on the cake with the amplifier, many times you will find with exceptional preamps that by-passing them to go direct to amplifiers would be a sonic mistake.
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mantis007
113 posts
 
Suteetat, ff you can run your DAC via RCA into the direkt input, I highly recommend it. I had my Modwright Transporter going into the balanced input and then tried the direkt input via some inexpensive RCA(just to try) and the difference was very dramatic - direkt was MUCH better in my system. Then I got some RCA JPS Aluminata and am in heaven ;-)
paulfolbrecht
603 posts
 
Mantis,

You posted in a thread a few months before this one that you were considering an Emitter, heard it, and were glad you hadn't bought one. You obviously changed your mind. Just have another demo that went better? Just curious.
wjt3
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