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Two Sources, One DAC

Hi all, 

Thinking of dusting off my Denon SACD/DVD/CD player.  It's a bit dated, so was thinking would I be better off running it through a more modern DAC?  If I were to do that is there any reason I cannot also run my Node 2i through it also?   I see Schitt has optical, dig coax and USB on a couple of their models, for example.  If this is a good idea, any guidance on which connection to use where?  

Could be a rookie question, if so feel free to let me know.  

Thanks in advance.  

128x128mtbiker29
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fuzztone
5,591 posts
 

Remote exclusively.

I use AES/EBU for CD, i2s for a streamer, i2s for a DDC, USB for a streamer, Toslink for a DDC, and coax for a streamer that has 3 more inputs available via remote.

Have at it, whatever sounds better.

alexopth1512
18 posts
 

USB and I2S inputs will give you the ultra HI-RES options like DSD512 and PCM 384KHz not available in other inputs, usually RCA coax would give up to 24/192KHz (which is very decent by the way) but if you want to try even higher you need USB or I2S. Of course you need to find music in these formats, not available through streaming.

I am buying these formats from NativeDSD and for streaming I prefer TIDAL 

mahler123
3,312 posts
 

I use a Bryston DAC3.  It has every input imaginable including 4 HDMI inputs.  I use the latter for SACD, because both my Opponents 105 and Sony 5400 can output the DSD layer of my numerous SACD collection into the HDMI of the DAC, 

mikem
260 posts
 

I use my DAC like a preamp for source switching.. since my linestage doesn’t have source switching.. most DAC’s have multiple input types..

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