Using expert 200 with a separate DAC/preamp

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Hi Ian and thanks for the reply.

My pleasure.

Specifically, your reminder that I can't bypass the DAC/pre stage of the devialet is very helpful....

To be clear, you can bypass the pre-amp stage by configuring the "pass through" option on the analog or digital input to which your source is connected.  This gives you a fixed-gain input (not affected by the volume control) to the ADH power stage.  This configuration can be used for example where the Devialet is driving two speakers in a multi-channel home theatre set-up.  (Other inputs will still work normally, when selected, subject to the volume control, etc.)  Analog sources will still be digitised, because the power stage reuires a digital input.  Think of the main internal DAC as the input to the power stage rather than part of the pre-amp.