Connecting a DAC directly to an amp?

emergingsoul OP
This is getting sooo damn complex for my tiny mind. Very very and maybe toooo techie

To put it simply, your Chord Dac using the remote variable volume output from it’s line outputs, gives over 5volts!!!! at full volume. This is more than enough for any amps on the market.

Use it direct into your amp and forget about buying a preamp, save the money and get sound that more transparent/dynamic/uncoloured in the process.

Cheers George

Looking at a modwright ls300 tube preamp.  Hard to plug dac directly into amp when I have an avr.  Only use for streaming.

tube preamp allows ease of functionality between avr and preamp.

tube preamp allows ease of functionality between avr and preamp.

WHAT!!!
If you can use a tube preamp between the dac and amp, then you can use the dac direct and use it’s volume control without the tube preamp.
Which is your thread title  "Connecting a DAC directly to an amp?"  

Cheers George

Or! if you need more input switching feed the dac into a switch box and what ever else you have like these.
https://www.goldpt.com/sw4.html
https://www.goldpt.com/sw2x.html
https://www.goldpt.com/sw2x.html

Cheers George
 

These switches look really good and credible. Don’t look like they can be controlled via remote.

so if I only stream, need for a preamp seems totally unnecessary if using a switch.  Vast complexity and expense and value and need for a preamp has never been fully resolved in my tiny mind.

thanks George. Big potential for this type of product for those wanting theatre bypass.