Hi!
Reading the review of the Kii Three was very interesting. Meanwhile I missed your impressions of the sound from analogue sources souch as the Vinnie Rossi DHT preamp and others. How does the sound from analogue sources with the A/D converter compare with direct digital sources? Did you try this? Would a tube preamp as the Vinnie be able to run long wires to the speakers without degrading the sound? Transistor preamps often have a very low output impedance and in that case it wouldn't be an issue.
Regards
Thomas Nielsen
If I had tried it, I'd written about it. Also, I don't own a Vinnie Rossi DHT preamp. I reviewed it but returned the DHT conversion kit. I do have the AVC version without tubes. But I don't have any analog sources like vinyl or tape or radio. Using a DAC's analog outputs only to convert them back to digital inside the Kii Three then back to analog made no sense to me when you can eliminate that DAC entirely and drive the speaker off the same digital source you'd use for the DAC. Seeing how the Kii Control I had on review acts as a three-input switcher, I also didn't see any rationale in using an external preamp as go-between for my digital sources. Why make things more complicated and costly than they have to be? You obviously could do what you're asking; and would have to with vinyl. To my mind and with digital, it'd simply defeat the entire Kii Three concept with its innate elegance, hence I didn't try it.
Srajan
