Comments on: Ditching Your Linestage and Going Source-Direct https://www.audioresurgence.com/2025/03/ditching-your-linestage-and-going-source-direct.html ~Audiophile Reviews | Gossip | Gear~ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: CAH https://www.audioresurgence.com/2025/03/ditching-your-linestage-and-going-source-direct.html#comment-29652 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:39:06 +0000 https://www.audioresurgence.com/?p=19337#comment-29652 In reply to Pat.

I owned the 280D for a while and loved it. Yes, adjusting the volume via a computer isn’t ideal. I would think you could fix that and get a big improvement for not a lot of money. There’s some really good tube linestages around for under $1000, I would expect that you’d appreciate the step up from using a computer, which generally reduces resolution as a means to reducing volume.

]]> By: Pat https://www.audioresurgence.com/2025/03/ditching-your-linestage-and-going-source-direct.html#comment-29650 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:23:26 +0000 https://www.audioresurgence.com/?p=19337#comment-29650 What a great instructive article!

I’m building a system and I’m currently running without a preamp.

DAC is a Simaudio Moon 280D Mind 2
Power amp is a Classé Audio CA-2100

The result is quite positive, a nice sound with depth. It may lack warmth and roundness; for the last point I’m making up for it with my subwoofer.

The volume control is a little problematic too, actually it’s controled by my computer, as a media center and this can be dangerous.

]]> By: Dan https://www.audioresurgence.com/2025/03/ditching-your-linestage-and-going-source-direct.html#comment-29629 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:13:52 +0000 https://www.audioresurgence.com/?p=19337#comment-29629 Thanks for the really great summary (with helpful examples) of the pros/cons of going direct!

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