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OMG that’s awesome.Joe, I use a integrated as well, a Constellation Inspiration integrated I bought from a friend at a great price. Here's a pic of my current setup with my Inspiration (bottom left) and my Lumin P1 (top left) The Lumin P1 is fabulous product, and in my setup, it functions as my streamer, DAC and preamp. I set the Inspiration to Unity Gain and it functions as the power amplifier. This is because the LEEDH digital volume control on the Lumin P1 sounds better than the analog volume control on the Inspiration. Oh, BTW, and Mike is a Lumin dealer, also
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Getting the Lumin P1 and using the Inspiration I was able to remove., get this....15 pieces of gear (components, ICs, PCs, cables, yadda, yadda) from my main rack alone. Not counting the TT setup, I now only need 1 pair of ICs and 2 PCs. My EAR 324 phono stage designed by Tim (RIP) and Michell TT/SME/Koetsu are on the right rack. I use the TT occasionally, but mostly these days, I stream from a remotely-placed Roon music server via LC/LC optical fiber to the Lumin P1 (which also has an optical SFP port).
It's a much simpler setup than I had previously, and simple is really good because simple always works.
Cheers, Joe!
When I heard the Constellation, I really wanted it but I couldn’t make it happen. Now that I’ve downsized, for now, I’m excited to see what new gear is out there. My Hegel has a built in dac and it’s wonderful.