21-Aug-2015, 17:46
(21-Aug-2015, 17:25)thumb5 Wrote:(21-Aug-2015, 16:39)Womaz Wrote: Over last few months been using my headphones a lot more and looks like this will continue. Not by choice I may add
My AKGs are decent and I feel the amp is decent too. A few techhy questions though. My amp is connected with RCA inputs so not digitally. Does this mean I am using the DAC in the 200 as apposed to the DAC in the headphone amp.?
Hello again!
If you're taking analog pre-out from the Devialet to the input of your headphone amplifier, then you are certainly using a DAC in the Devialet. I hesitate to say the DAC because I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple DACs.
(21-Aug-2015, 16:39)Womaz Wrote: Would I be better off with a headphone amp without a DAC as then I presume this would use the D200s DAC?
If the headphone amp has analog inputs, you can connect the Devialet's analog pre-out directly to it. It sounds from your previous question as though that's what you're doing. Whether that will be better or worse than connecting a digital output from the Devialet into the digital input of a headphone amplifier is probably a matter of personal taste/opinion.
(21-Aug-2015, 16:39)Womaz Wrote: If I go for a new headphone amp should I look at one that will connect digitally to the 200 as this means it will use the ADH technology?
From my understanding of the Devialet architecture, if you're taking a digital pre-out into a headphone amp, ADH will not be involved. I may be wrong, but I understand ADH to be essentially the power amplification stage of the Devialet and involves a hybrid of class A and D amplifiers melded together. There is a DAC shown in the ADH white paper, which provides the input to the class A/D hybrid power amplifier -- that may or may not be the same DAC that drives pre-out, but in either case the ADH part really comes after it so would not be "involved" in the headphone chain. But that sounds like a moot point to me.
(21-Aug-2015, 16:39)Womaz Wrote: Just trying to understand all of this as it will help me with the buying process.
Considering the Senn HD800, Oppo PM1 and the Hifman HE1000 (crazy price )
Any help or guidance as always very much appreciated.
You might be over-thinking it! Choose a headphone amp you like, maybe one that has both analog and digital inputs, and experiment. Personally I doubt I would hear a difference between analog and digital inputs to a decently-engineered headphone amp.
Excelent, exactly the help I was looking for, I also think you are right in that I am tending to overthink it........maybe because I got a little caught out with my 200 purchase and lack of homework
Again I must reiterate that I love the 200. I was just wondering if the headphome amp really takes away the 200 sound signature.
Thanks for your help , as always much appreciated.
Devialet 200 -- Roon Nucleus-- Sonus Faber Olympica 2 -- Tellurium Q Black Speaker Cables --
Chord Qutest -- Niimbus US5 Pro Headphone amp —HifiMan HEK, Abyss 1266TC
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Chord Qutest -- Niimbus US5 Pro Headphone amp —HifiMan HEK, Abyss 1266TC
Newcastle upon Tyne, England