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I will probably soon invest in a Woo Audio WA7 headphone amplifier to match a Sennheiser 600. This would be mostly for music residing on the iPad and MacAir. This unit happens to have an integrated DAC supporting 32bit/192KHZ. The question i have, would either the BS9000 or the BV11 benefit from:
- headphone amplifier
- External DAC
Would appreciate your opinion.
BV11-55, BS9000, BL1, BL19, Transmitter 1, Beo4, Beocom 6000, BeoTalk1 200, Sennheiser HD600, McIntosh MHA100
rxcohen: The question i have, would either the BS9000 or the BV11 benefit from: - headphone amplifier - External DAC
The question i have, would either the BS9000 or the BV11 benefit from:
Hi,
The BV11 doesn't have a digital audio out - so an External DAC wouldn't help at all.
However, you can set the Power Link outputs to give you a line output, which could be fed into the line input of a headphone amplifier. I confess that I've never done this - but I regularly feed a BV11 PowerLink output to a "normal" power amp - and that works very well.
Cheers
-geoff
It works well in my case (a V1 and a ProJect HeadBox).
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Great - thank you both for the feedback....
just for clarification on how to configure this. I am guessing that
- I would connect the the TV to the amp with a PL-RCA cable
- the PL port on the BV11 would be defined as "line"
- would set up a sound mode with just the PL line port defined, so that the TV sound from its internal speakers would be muted.
Does this sound right?
Hi rxcohen,
that is exactly how I did it.
N.B. It is more correct - instead of saying 'the ....speakers would be muted' - to say you are using a Speakers combination/group, that only uses this output.
Might seem a bit pedantic - but it is important for understanding how the Speakers settings work with the new audio engine.