Pre -amp or not

[Innocent_Bystander]

There have been at least a couple of threads recently on the general topic, worth a read rather than people re-posting things here:

Is a preamplifier really necessary with a streamer?

Good Evening All, I’m aware that there was a posting relatively recently from the owner of an NDX2 asking essentially the same question and it wasn’t really fully answered. I have an Akurate DS/3 (LP12 Urika II fed into this) currently going into a NAC52 c/w Supercap. I’m also going to ask the same question - is the pre-amplifier really necessary? What is it bringing to the party exactly? As far as I can see I don’t need any amplification to feed the signal to the SNAXO 3-6 so anything in the…

No Pre-Amp?

I have Hugo2 DAC with ‘remote digital volume’. As my sources are 100% digital I neither need nor use a pre-amp. Could I build a NAIM system likewise? I’d ideally like just an NDX2 and a NAP300DR, but does that work?