Recently I bought Fiio K3 as I'm shifting temporarily to portable audio but my real love remains loudspeakers based system. In that domain too, till now I was relying whatever rudimentary D/A conversion that was happening in the amp itself. After hooking up my integrated to the DAC, I noticed the difference it makes in the sound output and thus realized the importance of it. For the time being my current setup will do but I'm already planning my future build and although I haven't set a budget in my mind for it, I do have few technical queries regarding it. I intend to create Digital source based setup as most of my music is either in my hard disk or on my phone or I stream. This thread is regarding the DAC, so please hear me out and clarify my doubts.
1. If a signal is to be split, for feeding to 2 amps, should it be done from Source(Digital) or from DAC?
2. If it's split from DAC then wouldn't it add noise to the analog signal? I'm visualizing passive parallel connections here. If there's a better way to do so then please do tell.
3. If 2 amps are to be given the signal then does splitting signal using an active crossover is the way or is there a cheaper option?
4. Are there DACs out there that have all sorts of digital input, Coax,Optical,USB,Bluetooth,WiFi and have similar outputs and analog inputs both RCA and Balanced XLR?
I have these doubts because I want the audio signal to be fed to 2 amps, one for driving the speakers and one for driving the subwoofers. Thus want to know what would be the best way to go about doing so.
1. If a signal is to be split, for feeding to 2 amps, should it be done from Source(Digital) or from DAC?
2. If it's split from DAC then wouldn't it add noise to the analog signal? I'm visualizing passive parallel connections here. If there's a better way to do so then please do tell.
3. If 2 amps are to be given the signal then does splitting signal using an active crossover is the way or is there a cheaper option?
4. Are there DACs out there that have all sorts of digital input, Coax,Optical,USB,Bluetooth,WiFi and have similar outputs and analog inputs both RCA and Balanced XLR?
I have these doubts because I want the audio signal to be fed to 2 amps, one for driving the speakers and one for driving the subwoofers. Thus want to know what would be the best way to go about doing so.