Who's the DAC Daddy? DVD player or Home Cinema Amp?
Thu, Jun 14 2007, 1:03PM
I have a Denon AVR2106 home cinema amp and am about to buy the Denon DVD1930 DVD player to go with it. I was always planning to connect them using a coaxial digital lead, but then I thought to myself; Are the DAC's in the DVD Player better than the ones in my amp? The DVD player is stated as having 24 Bit/192kHz Burr-Brown Audio DAC. Would it therefore be better to use the analogue outputs from the DVD player and connect them to the individual channel inputs in the amp? Would I really only benefit when playing CD's or would this apply to DVD's too? I'd like to hear any thoughts before shelling out for some quality patch cables!
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There probably won't be much in it in terms of quality, but since you're going to need the multichannel analogue connections if you want to play multichannel DVD-Audio discs or SACDs through the receiver, it's probably worth experimenting.
You may have some budget cables kicking around, or you could use the pair provided with the player, plus a couple more pairs, which shouldn't set you back much more than a fiver from somewhere like Maplin.
In fact, I just noticed that the Maplin catalogue has a neat six-pack of cables, colour-coded so you get all the channels right(!), for £6.99.
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