Hello, I hope I am posting this in the right forum, if not mods please move this thread.
In the past I used my headphone amp (headroom ultra desktop/meier-audio corda symphony) as preamp for my poweramp/speakers (primare 31.2 2x 120w and audio physic yara ii classic). However, I am going stax and this means I can no longer use my headphone amp as preamp (the stax amps I can afford usually dont function in such a way).
I first wanted to get a dac with preamp but there is little choice there in my pricerange only the dac1 and the minidac as far as I know. So I was thinking about a dedicated preamp but I dont want to spend too much money on it, on the ohter hand I want my 1400 euro speakers and 1800 euro poweramp to sound good. I am not sure how this worked in the past but I think the symphony and ultra desktop used passive preamp, i hope someone can confirm this.
But now my questions and confusion, as far as I knew a preamp is just a volume control
1. then what is the difference between an active/passive rpeamp and
2. a passive/active volume control?
I am confused ads to what my options are. Someone please explain...
Greetings, Anouk
In the past I used my headphone amp (headroom ultra desktop/meier-audio corda symphony) as preamp for my poweramp/speakers (primare 31.2 2x 120w and audio physic yara ii classic). However, I am going stax and this means I can no longer use my headphone amp as preamp (the stax amps I can afford usually dont function in such a way).
I first wanted to get a dac with preamp but there is little choice there in my pricerange only the dac1 and the minidac as far as I know. So I was thinking about a dedicated preamp but I dont want to spend too much money on it, on the ohter hand I want my 1400 euro speakers and 1800 euro poweramp to sound good. I am not sure how this worked in the past but I think the symphony and ultra desktop used passive preamp, i hope someone can confirm this.
But now my questions and confusion, as far as I knew a preamp is just a volume control
1. then what is the difference between an active/passive rpeamp and
2. a passive/active volume control?
I am confused ads to what my options are. Someone please explain...
Greetings, Anouk
