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In Reply to: Do you have streaming capability on your main vinyl system? posted by RHerring on February 2, 2017 at 11:32:19:
If you are asking if my vinyl front end and my digital front end share the same amplification and speaker system then, yes.
A laptop PC is used to stream Qobuz and BBC R3. It also plays my rips and downloads via JRiver MC. That is connected to my dCS digital processors and then to an EAR Yoshino preamp to which my turntable/arm/cartridge is also connected as it contains the phono stage for the vinyl side of things. The output from the preamp is sent to active ATC speakers.
I don't understand the rationale of a separate vinyl system if the equipment is both good for digital and good for vinyl and you aren't trying to play both simultaeously. There is also the question of the additional real estate taken up. In my case enough of this has been sacrificed already :-)
NB: With such setups for some combinations of equipment it may be best to turn off the digital stuff while playing records. Some digital processors cause a lot of EMI/RFI which can be picked up particularly by the sensitive circuitry in the phono stage. It doesn't affect me currently but older systems that I owned back in the early days of CD were very prone to this. Not a good circumstance with DACs using resistor ladders where temperature needs to be kept constant (resistance changes with temperature) thus meaning they should ideally be left switched on.
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