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Is my hearing bad?

I brought home a Bel Canto Dac2.0 to a/b against my $200 AMC cdp. I can't hear any diferences whatsoever. Soundstage, depth or imaging. Is it my ears or is the AMC better than I originally thought? I had both in the stereo direct mode through the B&K.

My system
B&K Ref 30
BAT VK-200
B&W Signature 805's
jdodmead
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
What kind for interconnects and what digital cable? The AMC is the transport?

I also wonder if your HT preamp is a weak link for 2 channel audio?? Are you sure you are not re-processing the digital sound through the HT decoder a second time?
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marakanetz
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To find differences in digital playback is a great challenge since the 99.9% of differences are introduced through proper digital noise filtering in after-DAC proccess especially if different components are using the same DAC chips and all digital standards of 75Ohm signal transfering are in effect. If you change your DAC to BAT VK5 preamp than you'd probably benefit much more.

Excellent system though!
jdodmead OP
257 posts
 
Marakanetz,
So in other words, you think I would be better off adding a BAT pre? I demoed an Anthem pre over the weekend and wasn't wowed. But I have been looking over the BAT pre listings. here.

Thanks
Jeff
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