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@coop_301 I had a moment, and knowing that for a newbie setting up what your proposing can be a bit challenging; I found this:

Output voltage (Page 1) — ADI-2 Pro & ADI-2 DAC — RME User Forum (rme-audio.de)

While RME offers the very nice feature of adjustable voltage output from both single ended (RCA) and balanced (XLR) outputs, none of them conform to consumer industry standards. Regrettably this is all too common, making consumer system building that more challenging. On the other hand, this common practice might allow you to find a close to perfect match. This deviation while not ideal, might not necessarily disqualify the RME from consideration, but I'd recommend keeping your options open. With a 32 bit source, you should have a generous amount of wiggle room before bit stripping occurs. As such, given the choice, I would recommend going with a slightly higher rather than slightly lower voltage output. Please bear in mind that all these recommendations are restricted to the technical considerations (albeit, perhaps more critical for what your proposing, than might otherwise be the case). There are other considerations such as what sounds best to you!  There is a plethora of digital sources out there, I recommend you use these technical considerations to pare down the options to a short list, and then choose what sounds best to you. 

coop_301 -  Last year I spent considerable time selecting my front end. My particular bias is toward neutrality / honesty with stellar technical specs required and extra points for ubiquity in the pro record-making world. I landed on Benchmark. I chose their stand-alone DAC-B over their Hybrid Gain Control because separating the digital DAC from the all-analog preamp fits my needs better. You might enjoy adding it to your list.

@jafant and unsound

B&W is not on my high efficient speaker list. I have heard various of their floor  standers and just do not like the treble.

I think the 805's require like 50 watts minimum and my goal is something  where 50 watts would be much more than enough.,

Any suggestions?

Dsper 

dsper

Right On! keep me posted on your Audio quest.

Happy Listening!

Thanks unsound, reading about not just the output V ->input V principle, but also reading up on the relationship between dBu and voltage (a link in the thread) seems so fundamental, it's odd how little the subject is brought up on the mainstream consumer level.  Thanks for pushing me to learn more here, I'm looking forward to playing around with this.

Tomthiel, great suggestion on the Benchmark!  I appreciate the purity of the B, but the HGC I think fits my needs a little more right now.  Regardless, they all seem to have great reviews, lots of functionality, and no frills.  Still reading up on it (ironically, output voltage is the one spec that I don't see listed!), but it's at the #1 spot right now for me.