Hi all,
I have a bit of a dilemma, or trilemma even. I am switching to a system where all my music is stored on a dedicated netbook. It will be played on MA GR20's and sometimes a (Sennheiser 540reference & 595) headphone. I now have a MF V-DAC and NAD320BEE amp. But I would like to make a major step in quality of the amplification (especially for more complex classical music) for both speakers and cans. So I need just one input, either rca line (if I keep the VDAC) or USB (I could sell the VDAC then, although I think the VDAC is good enough for me)
So the options are:
[*]buy a better amp with an excellent headphone out (but which)
[*]buy a better amp (MF, Primare, ...) without a headphone, plus a separate headphone amp
(of course it will have lots of inputs and buttons in both cases that I will never use - seems a bit wasteful with only one source). [*]buy a headphone amp that can also be used as a (passive?) preamp connected to a power amp. Perhaps the MF XCANv8p would be an options (no remote volume control though), but paired to what power amp? Any other suggestions/experiences?
All comments and suggestions are welcome, assuming I would spend around up to 1000-1200 euro.
Thanks!
Pete10
I have a bit of a dilemma, or trilemma even. I am switching to a system where all my music is stored on a dedicated netbook. It will be played on MA GR20's and sometimes a (Sennheiser 540reference & 595) headphone. I now have a MF V-DAC and NAD320BEE amp. But I would like to make a major step in quality of the amplification (especially for more complex classical music) for both speakers and cans. So I need just one input, either rca line (if I keep the VDAC) or USB (I could sell the VDAC then, although I think the VDAC is good enough for me)
So the options are:
[*]buy a better amp with an excellent headphone out (but which)
[*]buy a better amp (MF, Primare, ...) without a headphone, plus a separate headphone amp
(of course it will have lots of inputs and buttons in both cases that I will never use - seems a bit wasteful with only one source). [*]buy a headphone amp that can also be used as a (passive?) preamp connected to a power amp. Perhaps the MF XCANv8p would be an options (no remote volume control though), but paired to what power amp? Any other suggestions/experiences?
All comments and suggestions are welcome, assuming I would spend around up to 1000-1200 euro.
Thanks!
Pete10