Hey SPK this thread was kind of timely for me.
Not sure if you have an opinion on this but:
I have a panasonic ub9000 dvd player which I also use for cds, and a yamaha RX-A2080 av amp.
Question is -- is it 'better' to use the DAC in the player, or the DAC in the receiver for CD playback? Assuming they're broadly similar, my thought was, do the conversion close to the source but I'm a total noob so that could be nonsense.
If better to use the receiver; I have an optical cable already. I take it from your opinion that there shouldn't really be anything in it between that and a similar quality coaxial cable? (makes sense to me).
If better to use the panasonic dac, then should I go ordinary analogue interconnects, or the balanced pin cables? why?
Might be I'm overthinking it all at the 'level' of equipment i have...so if you say 'just run what you have' I get it too...
Cheers