Hi,
I am fairly new into this hobby and I've only had experience buying desktop DACs and AMPs. Now I wanted to try and setup a bookshelf speaker setup for my living room and will be using the SMSL m500 as my DAC. Initially I wanted to buy Active Speakers and was interested in the iLoud MTMs. From what I understand, with active speakers, all you need is a preamp to adjust the volume and the SMSL m500 takes care of that I assume (TV>SMSLm500>Active speakers) but now that I've seen great reviews about bookshelf speakers, I am lost on how to power them. So the chain would be TV>SMSL m500 > *some amplifier* > Bookshelf speaker?
All those ports behind bookshelf speakers are they RCA ports? Someone please educate me in layman's terms.
I am fairly new into this hobby and I've only had experience buying desktop DACs and AMPs. Now I wanted to try and setup a bookshelf speaker setup for my living room and will be using the SMSL m500 as my DAC. Initially I wanted to buy Active Speakers and was interested in the iLoud MTMs. From what I understand, with active speakers, all you need is a preamp to adjust the volume and the SMSL m500 takes care of that I assume (TV>SMSLm500>Active speakers) but now that I've seen great reviews about bookshelf speakers, I am lost on how to power them. So the chain would be TV>SMSL m500 > *some amplifier* > Bookshelf speaker?
All those ports behind bookshelf speakers are they RCA ports? Someone please educate me in layman's terms.