My current system is made up of a Marantz PM6003, fed by a Marantz CD6003 and a Denon TU1800DAB tuner. Speakers are Wharefedale Diamond 10.2s, and for private listening, I have a pair of Grado SR80s connected to the amp's headphone out.
I've read a lot about the benefits of the Cambridge Audio DAC Magic for improving the quality of digital music files before sending them to the amp. My question is whether there would be any meaningful benefit in sound quality if I were to add a DAC Magic to my system, and feed the digital signals from the CD6003 and TU1800DAB into it and then on to the amp via the DAC Magic's analogue out.
The other possible change I might make is to use a dedicated headphone amp for private listening. The question I have then, is how to integrate it into the existing system. Do I have to disconnect a source from the main amp and reconnect to the headphone amp directly - and vice versa afterwards? Or could I run an analogue interconnect from one of the main amp's line-outs into the headphone amp, and leave everything else in place?
Jeff
I've read a lot about the benefits of the Cambridge Audio DAC Magic for improving the quality of digital music files before sending them to the amp. My question is whether there would be any meaningful benefit in sound quality if I were to add a DAC Magic to my system, and feed the digital signals from the CD6003 and TU1800DAB into it and then on to the amp via the DAC Magic's analogue out.
The other possible change I might make is to use a dedicated headphone amp for private listening. The question I have then, is how to integrate it into the existing system. Do I have to disconnect a source from the main amp and reconnect to the headphone amp directly - and vice versa afterwards? Or could I run an analogue interconnect from one of the main amp's line-outs into the headphone amp, and leave everything else in place?
Jeff