Quickie As Dac Output Stage

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Offline Jazziz1

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on: September 20, 2014, 11:34:13 AM
Hello All:

Was wondering if Quickie pre can be wired directly to output of dac chip from cd player, bypassing the opamps? Thanks.



Offline Natural Sound

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Reply #1 on: September 20, 2014, 11:51:36 AM
Hello All:

Was wondering if Quickie pre can be wired directly to output of dac chip from cd player, bypassing the opamps? Thanks.

I don’t see why not. I did something similar a while back with a DAC stage in a CD player. It worked great.



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Reply #2 on: September 20, 2014, 12:00:34 PM
Yes, it can.  Whether it will work well or not depends on how much gain was being delivered from the opamp in the first place.

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Reply #3 on: September 20, 2014, 12:51:45 PM

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Reply #4 on: September 22, 2014, 03:51:34 PM
How you do it depends on the particular DAC chip; some put out voltage and others put out current. I googled "DAC IV resistor tube" and got a lot of hits that looked relevant. (IV is short for current-to-voltage, if that makes more sense.)

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