I'm thinking about making a change to my 2-channel system... mainly to add a little tubey-ness to the sound and second to add a phonostage
I have a few choices...
1- Keep what I have, it sounds lovely, accurate, detailed, w/ great imaging, etc. There's no real reason to change a thing... but to add a TT is $1500 to do it right... and it'll still be converted to digital.
2- Replace the TacT with a traditional preamp with similar resolution but with tubes and a phonostage... and use a separate DAC. (Scott Nixon tube DAC) Cost to sell/buy everything is about $600.... give or take.
3- Replace TacT pre and the Audio PC* with a Squeezebox, move the PC to another room and get the SN USB DAC. No TT but
possibly netting a savings, not sure after SB3 mods. My PDA (or laptop) would become my remote, with album art.... neat!
*-PC is a 20db noise-maker that resides in the sound room now
My goal is to compare all 3 scenarios back-to-back in the coming weeks.
It will not be easy. However, I'm very interested to see how all these fair. If anyone has a modified/upgraded power supply or SB3 they'd like to see compared, let me know and I'll thow it in the mix. As it stands, I have the stock wired setup... I don't need wireless for the SB3.
So, let me know your thoughts or suggestions on performing the comparisons....
It'll be a couple of weeks before I can A/B/C compare these options... but I'm going to work on them prior to the big 'shootout'.
Thanks,
Carl