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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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lbarbish
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I have read all of this but have a question. I have all my cds stored FLAC on my Synology  NAS. I stream music through SONOS through the house being happy with the general outcome. But for my serious listening I feed to a SONOS Connect to my main stereo. The feed goes to my Bryston dac, then to my Cronus Magnum. Am I missing anything here?  How can I make this set up better?
kennyc
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@lbarbish
Your question is off the OP topic which is generally frowned upon - you’d be much better served by opening a new thread with your inquiry
fittebd
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OP glad to see you are setting in on something amongst all these what I will call various responses.  Sign up for Roon after you rip and get the AVR setup.  If you are going to be using the coax or optical out will really limit your range on an external DAC. No high res I believe. Need usb.  
My suggestion would Play with before you do anything and see if you like Roon. If you do new DAC unless your Avr is serious hi end then a new DAC would be great. Feed it back to avr to amp via analog pass through if it has it.  This works great and you can find the right DAC.  For your budget it’s wide open.  
Good luck. 
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holmz OP
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I have read all of this but have a question. I have all my cds stored FLAC on my Synology NAS. I stream music through SONOS through the house being happy with the general outcome. But for my serious listening I feed to a SONOS Connect to my main stereo. The feed goes to my Bryston dac, then to my Cronus Magnum. Am I missing anything here? How can I make this set up better?
So the Snology would be like my NUC?The Sonos like rather Roon?
And the DACS gets the optical from the Sonos, where I amight do it from the AVR?


@lbarbish
Your question is off the OP topic which is generally frowned upon - you’d be much better served by opening a new thread with your inquiry
If it is a serious question, then it seems like is similar.
Or is it sarcastic?

Or do the Sonos output into the DAC, do some known jitterbug dance?
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holmz OP
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