Hi all,
I'll start from some background. A couple of weeks ago I got a Yamaha WXC-50 mainly as a steamer/flac player/dac. I usually listen on the same volume setting so don't use it in streamer mode bypassing preamp.
My Primare integrated doesn't have tone controls or anything fancy. In fact in the way of a preamp phase it only has a volume knob.
It gave me an idea. Since owning a Yamaha I could potentially get a power amp instead of another integrated in the future. Yamaha's got enough inputs for my needs. I would only rely on volume as not interested in eq.
So here a question. Is a power amp section that's mostly responsible for sound quality? If so would a Yamaha as pre + power amp produce potentially better sound than Yamaha + integrated amp?
Reason I'm asking is I've noticed that usually you can get a better quality power amp compared to same cost integrated. Or simply same quality power amp will cost slightly less than integrated.
Also are the well matched pre + power important (implying that the pre stage is more important than I think)?
Sorry if this is obvious to some of you but I appreciate if you take your time to reply. Thanks
I'll start from some background. A couple of weeks ago I got a Yamaha WXC-50 mainly as a steamer/flac player/dac. I usually listen on the same volume setting so don't use it in streamer mode bypassing preamp.
My Primare integrated doesn't have tone controls or anything fancy. In fact in the way of a preamp phase it only has a volume knob.
It gave me an idea. Since owning a Yamaha I could potentially get a power amp instead of another integrated in the future. Yamaha's got enough inputs for my needs. I would only rely on volume as not interested in eq.
So here a question. Is a power amp section that's mostly responsible for sound quality? If so would a Yamaha as pre + power amp produce potentially better sound than Yamaha + integrated amp?
Reason I'm asking is I've noticed that usually you can get a better quality power amp compared to same cost integrated. Or simply same quality power amp will cost slightly less than integrated.
Also are the well matched pre + power important (implying that the pre stage is more important than I think)?
Sorry if this is obvious to some of you but I appreciate if you take your time to reply. Thanks