491 Reproductor de red / Preamplificador

I finally ditched three separate boxes and plugged my turntable straight into this thing — the vinyl stage sounds warmer than the standalone preamp I was using before. Streaming from my phone over the network has been flawless too, no dropouts in two weeks of daily use.

Consolidating my turntable, streamer and headphone amp into this one box cleared so much cable clutter. The phono stage sounds dead quiet even with my older cartridge, and switching between vinyl and streaming is just a knob turn.

I finally swapped my separate phono stage and headphone amp for this one box, and the difference on vinyl is genuinely noticeable. The headphone output drives my 300-ohm planars without any strain, and having the preamp and DAC in the same unit kills the cable mess.