Trying to understand if there are any benefits/drawbacks in using the Analogue in source on my Sprout100 vs the internal Digital source. So, I have an external DAC, a Topping DS30 Pro, which technically is superior to the Sabre DAC inside of the Sprout100 if you look at the specs of both. This gi…

This may be of some help: [image] Sprout DAC bypass Integrateds Ok this may be a silly question but I just bought a Geshelli Labs J2 DAC for my den desktop system (PSA Sprout 100, Martin Logan 35XT speakers). I want to replace the Sprout DAC with the Geshelli. If I connect…

Yes and that’s the point and a great feature of the Sprout. You would hook up the Geshellie DAC to the Sprout100s analogue connections and then use the Analgue setting on the Sprout. That means you bypass the Sabre DAC in the Sprout and use your own. If you compare, please post back on the di…

Well, according to James, who has always been 100% right on for me, you can’t completely bypass the Sprout DAC, but you would be hearing the benefits of the better DAC. Personally, if I can’t completely bypass it’s DAC, I’m not sure it’s worth it. I did run my Chord Mojo2 DAC through it and it did s…

Interesting, please have James explain how you are not bypassing the Sprout DAC if you are already analogue signal? If it is already analogue, there is nothing for a DAC to do, correct, a DAC is a digital to analogue conversion. My concern was do the analogue inputs introduce any noise or other i…

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