Suggestions on pairing Adam A7x with Cyrus 8 vs2

[Sundeep V Menon]

Hello All,

Would any of you help enlighten if these two can be a nice pair?

Appreciate all the help.

Thanks

S

 

[Craig M.]

If, by nice pair, you mean will it work, then yes. Connect the Adams to the pre outs of your amp.

 

[d_a_n1979]

Why are you thinking of mixing a decent integrated amp with decent active speakers?

i think it's a waste of a good amp to just use the pre outs!

get yourself a decent DAC to go between your music source and feed the Adams that way and you'd have a cracking system!

 

[Sundeep V Menon]

Hi Craig, Dan,

Thanks for your immediate reply. I plan to buy the M1 DAC as the inbetweeen. What do you guys think?

Also Dan would you elaborate why you think that the it cant be driven directly?

Thanks,

S

 

[Craig M.]

I think what Dan is getting at is it would be a waste of the power amp section of your integrated, because you won't be using it. It might make more sense to sell your amp and buy something like the Dacmagic Plus, which includes a pre-amp and could be connected directly to the Adams. That is basically how my set-up works, a dac/pre direct into active speakers.

 

[d_a_n1979]

The Adams have their own volume control so the likes of an MF M1DAC would be more than sufficient (its a very good DAC indeed)

The Firestone Audio Spitfire MkII DAC & Emotiva XDA1 DACs would also be worth considering IMO

 

[Sundeep V Menon]

Hi Craig, Dan,

Sorry was away. I have an LP player, CD player apart from the ipod and FLACs on my desktop. The ipod and FLACs I route through the DAC. The rest through the amp. That is the reason for buying the Cyrus.

What say?

Thanks a bunch.

S

 

[Craig M.]

The Cyrus should work fine from its Pre-outs to the Adams. Or you could look at something like this http://www.stereophile.com/ces2010/furutech_gt40_usb_dac_with_phono_stage/

I'm not sure what connections the Adams have, but it's possible you'll need some phono to xlr leads. You can get cheap pro-audio ones that work fine.