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How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC)

I am looking primarily at the Schitt Yggdrasil or the Topping D90.
  • How does one feed those?
  • I am assuming any sort of CD transport would output the bit stream?
  • or… they get saved to file and played from some media player into the DACs.

Some example of what is commonly done would be great.

The system currently consists of:
  • TT —> Audio Research PH2
  • An old Nakamichi 5 disk CD player
  • TV
  • Audible Illusions line stage (New tunes on the way, but it still sound OK to me with the old tube in it)
  • Prima Luna (with GoldenLion and TS KT-120 one the way… and I might I’ll get the VTL mono blocks 100w/ch serviced)
  • Vandy 2C and Vandy sub

I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well? 

But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)
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david_ten
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@itsjustme  +1  regarding Hans Beekhuyzen
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david_ten
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We are in Metairie. Things, of course, are much worse further south and west of us. Went for my first bike ride (since Ida) along the south shore levy and it’s nearly cleaned up. Stinks, though. : )

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sbank
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"I am already running a NUC for the NetFlix streamer, and another for Linux so I am familiar with them. (& thanks for the links - I’ll give them a whirl) I guess I come out of the NUC on one of the HMDI ports? And into the HT-AVR/Pre?"

Cool. John Darko has a good video about setting up a NUC as Roon Core.  
No, you don't connect it to the Pre, just leave it near your router and add it via ethernet to a switch or the router itself. Your Roon Ready pre will be set up as the "Roon Endpoint", pulling the play queue from the NUC. You control it all via phone, tablet and perhaps from your HT pre depending on its features. Cheers,
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