Switching to digital?

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clearsignal, modified 5 Years ago.

Switching to digital?

Padawan Posts: 50 Join Date: 3/2/18 Recent Posts

So... I'm sitting in front of my Genelec sound system, having the time of my life, and still wondering if I can squeeze more out of it by switching to digital.

My DAP has an optical output, so all I need is an SPDIF to AES convertor. Under this scenario this signal path is:

Digital processing inside the DAP - > digital to digital conversion - > Genelec digital to analog.

Under the current setup, the signal path is:

Digital processing inside the DAP - > digital to analog inside the DAP - > Genelec analog to digital - > Genelec digital to analog.

The latter seems to have more steps, but could be those conversations are all lossless.

Any one can opine if I will precieve a difference between the two?

Thanks!