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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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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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sbank
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@lbarbish my post at the bottom of page one of this thread (last paragraph & the 2 youtube links) answers your question. If you watch and have followups, happy to help in your new thread. Cheers,
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limomangus
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The deeper you dig,the bigger the whole.Go simple ....
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I understand the Chord up sampler is a real improvement to the transport and DAC arrangement. I’d do that myself if I had the extra cash flow available.
https://www.moon-audio.com/chord-hugo-m-scaler.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImqee88Wv8wIVxwiICR0YhwnWEAAYAS...

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