Does dcs Vivaldi stack needs a pre amp

Here also is Michael Fremer’s (Stereophile) sound impressions with the Vivaldi direct into his Dartzeel 458 monoblocks, and he loves his Dartzeel NHB18ns preamp which is no slouch, so for him to say this is quite understated, as he's a vinyl freak.

Fremer: "Directly driving my amplifiers, produced high-resolution digital sound that I found easy to warm up to. The Vivaldis comprise the best non–digital-sounding digital system I’ve heard"

Cheers George

@georgehifi - thank you. I have seen your other contributions to the discussion folkfreek mentioned earlier.

Listening and judging by yourself is actually the best way to determine if the “colorations” ones audio setup “generates” suits your ears.

I am not the best Techie out there and the matching components part has been at least for me a challange from a impedance mV and Watts angle :)

Obviously there are pros and cons, but let’s see what the dCS stack does is my setup.