My thanks to you. Am dealing with cognitive decline and find am bit overwhelmed by complexity of this site and being able to find things. I advocate new design and organization. Probably not totally alone. Again appreciate your reading and responding as find way to higher and higher listening...

Thank you for your help. Most appreciative.

Thank you twice over. Have work bench. Will travel as this is a novel idea for a guy who has trouble using a screwdriver opening a can of beer.

I want to see if high quality RCA cables--two males each end--will improve sound quality my system. Would appreciate any recommendations.   thanks folks

Lived fine without tone controls until bought pair Denon 5000. Bass is wild and destructive, but Rotel pre-amp tone controls by passed when plug desktop HP amp into tape out per usual HP amp/Amp set up. Also no tone control using HP jack on Rotel, but cheaper Onkyo tone controls remained in play...

Yes, exactly. From CD player to HP amp.

thank you for your help

thank you very much

Why isn't better to connect my HP amps directly into full CD component player rather than plugging the HP amp into the receiver?   Bypasses receiver or amp and gives cleaner signal I would think if can bypass going through another unit.   True or not?   thanks for any help

My Channel Islands Audio desktop HP amp is plugged into the Tape Out on my Rotel control amp (as Rotel calls it), but this means I cannot use the tone controls and I need to badly since have Denon 5000 set which needs to be tamed when it comes to bass.   How can I set up connections using...

Peete   Total thanks. Understand what you said rather well for a non-techie. Off to follow your suggestions--but you sure are correct about the PITA component regarding access to lossless. And the cost!   Regards,   Art

Peete   Again, enormous gratitude for your generous sharing of technical knowledge. You have saved me hundreds. Will seriously look at  the iBasso.     With your help, now feel if am about to make it pass Go and collect $200 since this is the last bit of information I feel I need to...

Peete   Cannot thank you enough for your explanation. Your explanation is sheer poetry. And while it was over my head I found re-reading it that it began to penetrate. Best of all, you gave me the bottom line on why should by pass the HP jack. I will, however, miss the extra gain in using HP...

I keep running across HP amp manufacturers who say whether it is a Sony Walkman Cd player or a full fledged receiver that it is better to use the line level out than the headphone jack in connecting to the HP amp. When my HP amp is plugged into HP jack there is the major advantage of gain from...

Gentlemen:   I profusely apologize if I have missed the point I am interested in re Beyer 880/600 but  have the Beyer 880/32 because I was concerned with power/driving issues and so was too chicken to get the 600ohm.   What differences exist in sound between the 600 and 32 versions?  ...