Question guys.
I know this is all hypothetical, but tell me if you think a Dodd Buffer would be good in my situation:
So I've got an Emotiva ERC1 player, and I'll be getting soon the XDA-1 DAC. My plan now is to run ERC-1 and whatever else I get into (PC audio, etc) into the XDA-1 and the XDA-1 directly into the amplifier.
The XDA-1 apparently works really well straight into the amplifier and outputs 12Volt peaks and I think like 2 amps. It's supposed to sound really nice.
However, it has a digital volume control. Now while nobody knows how well theirs is implemented, do you think that by placing a Dodd Buffer between the XDA-1 (just turn it all the way up) and the amp, that I could get... even better sound?
So ERC-1 -> XDA-1 -> classD amp
or ERC-1 -> XDA-1 - > Dodd buffer -> classD amp?