17-Jun-2018, 21:47
Hi Jon, welcome to the forum.
First to say that you are correct, feeding the Devialet via an analogue output from your Naim is not an optimum solution. The Devialet will take the analogue input and convert it to 24 Bit digital, so you end up doing the digital to analogue conversion twice.
For a comparison, I suggest that you try Devialet AIR. This performs at a very high level of sound quality on the Pro. So, do you have a laptop, PC, Mac or similar that you can use to try AIR? As another option, if you happen to have a machine capable of running Roon, you could try the Roon free trial. Roon has an integrated version of AIR. Some suspect this sounds a touch better than “standard” AIR, and it is very stable.
First to say that you are correct, feeding the Devialet via an analogue output from your Naim is not an optimum solution. The Devialet will take the analogue input and convert it to 24 Bit digital, so you end up doing the digital to analogue conversion twice.
For a comparison, I suggest that you try Devialet AIR. This performs at a very high level of sound quality on the Pro. So, do you have a laptop, PC, Mac or similar that you can use to try AIR? As another option, if you happen to have a machine capable of running Roon, you could try the Roon free trial. Roon has an integrated version of AIR. Some suspect this sounds a touch better than “standard” AIR, and it is very stable.
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